WritingTechniqueQuestions- Underlinetheverbssaidandstatedinsentence6.Whattensearethese
verbs?
2.Underlinetheverbsintheindirectquotationsfollowingthesetwoverbs.
Comparethemwiththesameverbsinthemodelonpage43.Aretheyin
thesameora differenttense? - Comparesentence7 inbothmodels.Whathasbeenaddedtosentence7 in
themodelforindirectquotations?Howdidtheverbinthequotation
change? - Insentence6,whyarethewordsathletesandtheyinsquarebrackets?
- Comparesentence9 inbothmodels.Didanywordschange?
. DrugsandtheOlympicGames 2
51tseemsapparentthatif athleteswanttowin,theymustconsiderusing
drugs.6Dr.MichaelKarsten,aDutchphysicianwhosaidhehadprescribed
anabolicsteroidstohundredsofworld-classathletes,statedthatif [athletes]
wereespeciallygifted,[they]mightwinonce,butfromhisexperience[they]
couldn'tcontinuetowinwithoutdrugs.7Heassertedthatthefieldwas-justtoo
filledwithdrugusers(qtd.inBambergerandYaeger62).81nfact,somepeople
claimthatrecord-breakingperformancesofOlympicathletesmaybedirectly
duetodrugs.9CharlesYesalis,a PennsylvaniaStateUniversityprofessorwho
hasstudiedtheuseofdrug-sinsportsbelievesthat"alargepercentage"of
athleteswhohavesetnewrecordshavedonesowiththehelpofperformance-
enhancingdrugs.10Heclaimsthata lotofexperts,atleastin private,feelthat
way(qtd.inHerper,par.6).
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ChangingDirectOuotatiom;tolndirectOuotatiom;
Tochangea directquotationtoanindirectquotation:- Omitthequotationmarks.
2.Addthesubordinatorthat.(Youmayomitthatifthemeaningis clear
withoutit.) - Changetheverbtenseifnecessary.Followthesequenceoftensesrules.
- Changepronouns(andtimeexpressionsifnecessary)tokeepthesenseof
theoriginal.
Inindirectquotations,thespeaker'sorwriter'swordsarereportedindirectly,with-
outquotationmarks. Forthisreason,indirectquotationsaresometimescalled
reportedspeech.Indirectquotationsareintroducedbythesamereportingverbsused
fordirectquotations,andthewordthatis oftenaddedforclarity.Thetenseofverbs
inindirectquotationsis affectedbythetenseofthereportingverb.
Comparethefollowingmodelwiththesecondparagraphofthemodelfordirect
quotationsonpage43.Noticethechangesthatoccurwhenyourewritedirectquo-
tationsasindirectquotations.
Note:Thesamesentencenumbersareusedtohelpyoucomparethetwopara-
graphs.MODEL?IndirectQuotations
·lndirect
OuotatioD§