Read the article below. Make at least five reported statements based on the direct address of Bob Thirsk. Write your sentences on the blank provided.
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✏ ANSWER
➀ Bob Thirsk says Toronto students cultivating tomato seeds from space shouldn't worry about like imitating art.
➁ He said he'll eat tomatoes produced from the high flying seeds or use them to make salsa or ketchup.
➂ Thirsk said the program is designed to introduce space science to young Canadians.
➃ Bob Thirsk said that the space flown seeds made 170 orbits of the Earth, traveled more than 7 million kilometers and spent 12 days weightless.
➄ Thirsk said that he can see that in these classrooms we have potential future Canadian students and astronauts.
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What is reported/Indirect speech?
➙ In linguistics, indirect speech or reported speech is a grammatical mechanism for reporting the content of another utterance without directly quoting it. For example, the English sentence Jill said she was coming is indirect discourse while Jill said "I'm coming" would be direct discourse.
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✏ DIRECTION
Read the article below. Make at least five reported statements based on the direct address of Bob Thirsk. Write your sentences on the blank provided.
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✏ ANSWER
➀ Bob Thirsk says Toronto students cultivating tomato seeds from space shouldn't worry about like imitating art.
➁ He said he'll eat tomatoes produced from the high flying seeds or use them to make salsa or ketchup.
➂ Thirsk said the program is designed to introduce space science to young Canadians.
➃ Bob Thirsk said that the space flown seeds made 170 orbits of the Earth, traveled more than 7 million kilometers and spent 12 days weightless.
➄ Thirsk said that he can see that in these classrooms we have potential future Canadian students and astronauts.
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What is reported/Indirect speech?
➙ In linguistics, indirect speech or reported speech is a grammatical mechanism for reporting the content of another utterance without directly quoting it. For example, the English sentence Jill said she was coming is indirect discourse while Jill said "I'm coming" would be direct discourse.
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