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 #2 (permalink) Mon Jan 09, 2012 13:02 pm Re: Narration |
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It was announced that the finalist would be chosen after a series of all-day group personal interviews.
What is a "group personal interview"? |
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| #3 (permalink) Mon Jan 09, 2012 19:23 pm Narration |
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| I am confused about "group personal interview." |
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| #4 (permalink) Tue Jan 10, 2012 9:56 am Re: Narration |
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| Dozy wrote: |
It was announced that the finalist would be chosen after a series of all-day group personal interviews.
What is a "group personal interview"? |
Dozy:
From the above question and solution it can be infer that in direct narration reporting verb and reported verb both can be in passive form. correct? |
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| #5 (permalink) Tue Jan 10, 2012 13:40 pm Narration |
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When you read "It was announced/said/etc....", you usually expect it to be followed by indirect reporting of speech rather than a direct quote. I find the original sentence slightly awkward in this respect, though I would not say it is actually wrong.* Opinions may vary. The verbs inside the quote marks can be absolutely anything, since it is literally what the person said.
*apart from the irrelevant spacing typo |
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| #6 (permalink) Sat Jan 14, 2012 5:09 am Narration |
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It was announced,"the finalist will be chosen after a series of all day group personal interviews."
The underlined parts can be active or passive. correct? |
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| #7 (permalink) Sat Jan 14, 2012 13:26 pm Narration |
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| To make it active you would need to say "X announced", where X is (normally) the name or description of a person (e.g. "John announced", "The chairman announced", or whatever). |
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