Task 1: Observe the reported speech. Observe the verbs used to report what the participant in the news said

Soal dan Pembahasan – Secara umum materi news item text dapat dipelajari pada pelajaran bahasa Inggris pada tingkatan SMA kelas 12 kurikulum 2013 revisi 2018. Pada pelajaran bahasa inggris terdapat materi news item text yang soalnya akan dibagikan pada tulisan ini beserta pembahasannya.

Task 1: Observe the reported speech.
Observe the verbs used to report what the participant in the news said. Then, find all the direct speeches in the text about tenants of apartment and change them into reported (indirect) speech.

  1. “Tenants must obey certain regulations when living in an apartment, which is far different from living in a landed house,” Fendhi Ibuhindar said.
  2. “Tenants of an apartment should abide by regulations set by the owner of the high rise building, ” he added.
  3. “This is important, especially for a family that has a young child, ” he was quoted as saying by okezone.
  4. “Most of Jakarta residents are more accustomed to living in a landed house and when they live in an apartment, many are not ready for apartment living habits and regulations. They have to abandon their mindset of living in a landed house, ” he said.
  5. “Children’s safety should be the main concern with regards to the building materials that are used, ” he said.

Rewrite the text. All of the direct speeches have to be changed to reported (indirect) speeches.

  1. Fendhi Ibuhindar said that Tenants had to obey certain regulations when living in an apartment, which was far different from living in a landed house.
  2. He added that Tenants of an apartment should abide by regulations set by the owner of the high rise building.
  3. He was quoted that it is important, especially for a family that has a young child.
  4. He said that most of Jakarta residents were more accustomed to living in a landed house and when they lived in an apartment, many were not ready for apartment living habits and regulations. They had to abandon their mindset of living in a landed house.
  5. He said that children’s safety should be the main concern with regards to the building materials that were used.

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