Topik 4.

DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH

(Kalimat langsung dan kalimat tak langsung)

Basic Competence:
Students are able to change direct speech into indirect speech in various
medical situations.
By the end of this topic, students are able to:
1. Change imperative sentence into indirect speech
2. Change yes/no questions into indirect speech
3. Change wh-questions into indirect speech
4. Change statements into indirect speech

Materials:
Asked; meminta, bertanya
Said: berkata
Told: menceritakan
Remind: mengingatkan
Warned: memperingatkan
Prohibited: melarang

A. IMPERATIVE (kalimat perintah)

The doctor asked the nurse, “Check the woman temperature!” (DS)
The doctor asked the nurse to check the woman temperature. (IS)

The doctor asked the nurse, “Take the patient blood pressure!”
The doctor asked the nurse to take the patient blood pressure.

The doctor asked me, “Check his respiratory pulse!”

The doctor asked me to check his respiratory pulse.

The doctor asked the nurse, “Examine the fetus heartbeat!”

The doctor asked the nurse to examine the fetus heartbeat.

The doctor asked the midwife, “Bath the baby!”

The doctor asked the midwife to bath the baby.

“Check this woman pulse!”, the doctor asked the nurse.

The doctor asked the midwife to check the woman pulse.

“Buy the medicines immediately!”, the doctor asked me.

The doctor asked me to buy the medicines immediately.

“Don’t eat spicy food!”, the midwife warned the pregnant woman.
The midwife warned the pregnant woman not to eat spicy food.

B. Yes/No Questions
The nurse asked the doctor, “May the patient drink the medicine?”
The nurse asked the doctor if the patient might drink the medicine.
The midwife asked the doctor, “Does this prescription need to be changed?”
The midwife asked the doctor if the prescription needed to be changed.

The nurse asked the doctor, “Can this patient drink water?”
The nurse asked the doctor if the patient could drink water.

The doctor asked the nurse, “Have you given the medicine to the patient?”
The doctor asked the nurse if she had given the medicine to the patient.

“Have you examine vital signs on the patients?” the doctor asked the nurse.
The doctor asked the nurse if he had examined vital signs on the patients.

“Put the baby into the perimatology!” the doctor asked the midwife
The doctor asked the midwife to put the baby into the perimatology.

“Can I eat spicy food?”, the pregnant woman asked me.

The pregnant woman asked me if she could eat spicy food.

“Is this your first pregnancy?” the midwife asked the woman.
The midwife asked the woman if that was her first pregnancy.

C. Wh-Questions

“When can you come to the clinic?” the midwife asked the doctor.
The midwife asked the doctor when he could come to the clinic.

“How is your condition now?” the nurse asked the woman. (DS)
The nurse asked the woman how her condition was. (IS)

“What are your complaints?, the doctor asked the man.

The doctor asked the man what his complaints were.

The doctor asked the woman, “What medicines do you always consume?”
The doctor asked the woman what medicines she always consumed.

“How long have you experienced the pain?” the midwife asked to the pregnant woman.
The midwife asked the woman how long she had experienced the pain.

“What is the baby weight?, the doctor asked tha nurse.

The doctor asked the nurse what the baby weight was.

Jenis kata kerja: asked, said, commanded, told, reminded, warned, explained

D. Statements
The patient said to the midwife, “I have 2 children.”
The patient said to the midwife that she had 2 children.

The woman said to me, “This is my second pregnancy.”

The woman said to me that that was her second pregnancy.

I have checked the woman’s condition.

The midwife said that she had checked the woman’s condition.

You will deliver a female baby.

The midwife told the woman the she would deliver a female baby.
Your baby is very big.
The doctor said to the woman that her baby was very big.

I will have normal delivery.

The woman said to the midwife that she would have normal delivery.

“You will deliver a male baby”, the doctor told me.

The doctor told me that I would deliver a male baby.

Statement
“You will deliver a male baby”, the doctor told me.
The doctor told me that I would deliver a male baby.

IMPERATIVE
The doctor said to me, “Don’t consume antibiotics anylonger”
The doctor said to me not to consume antibiotics.
“Take the baby to the incubation room!”, the doctor asked the midwife.
The doctor asked the midwife to take the baby to the incubation room.
Yes/No Questions
The doctor asked the nurse, “Has the patient drunk medicines?”
The doctor asked the nurse if the patients had drunk medicines.
“Do you drink 8 glasses of water every day?”, the nurse asked the woman.
The nurse asked the woman if she drank 8 glasses of water every day.
WH-Questions
“Where do you live?” the nurse asked me.
The nurse asked me where I lived.
“ How long have you worked in this hospital?”, the woman asked the nurse.
The woman asked the nurse how long she worked in that hospital.
Statements
“I have 2 children”, the woman told me.
The woman told me that she had 2 children.
“the virus has spread to his body vital organ” the doctor told me.
The doctor told me that the virus had spread to his body vital organ.
“ this hospital offers good salary for paramedics,” the doctor said to me.
The doctor said to me that the hospital offered good salary for paramedics.

Change into indirect speech

1. DS: The doctor asked me, “Have your changed the man’s bandage?”
IS: the doctor asked me if I had changed the man’s bandage.
2. DS: “Don’t eat oily and fatty food!”, the doctor reminded me
The doctor reminded me not to eat oily and fatty food.
3. DS: “I never eat junk food”, the woman told me
The woman told me that she never ate junk food.
4. DS: “Do you drink your medicine regularly?” the doctor asked me.
The doctor asked me if I drank my medicine regularly.
5. DS: “Does my blood pressure increase?”, the man asked the nurse.
The man asked the nurse if his blood pressure increased.
6. DS: Where do you usually have medical treatment?, the doctor asked Tina.
The doctor asked Tina where she usually had medical treatment.

The doctor asked me, “Have your changed the man’s bandage?”
The doctor asked me if ______________________