Verbs followed by ‘if’ or ‘whether’ + clause:

26 The main verb in the subordinate clause in the Direct Speech Sentenceis changed into the “to-infinitive” form; consequently, the whole complex sentence is changed into a simple sentence in the Indirect Speech. Example: Billy said to me, “Give me your book” Direct The words Billy, me and bookare not changed because Billy and me are in the main clause of the Direct Speech. Bookis notchanged because it is a NOUN. Example: Billy ordered me to give him my book. Indirect ‘Said to’ is changed to „ordered’ because the exclamation mark shows that this expression is an order; „Give’ is changed into ‘to give’, the „to- infinitive’ form of the verb word „give’; „me’ is changed into„him’ because it is related to „John’, the subject of the main clause, and it is in the objective case; „your’ is changed into „my’ because it is related to „me’ in the main clause, and „I’ am the one reporting the speech; and, finally, the exclamation mark is dropped and the full stop is used in its place. When a sentence is imperative, changing it into indirect or reported speech form is done as follows: TABLE 2.7 Imperative sentences changing into indirect or reported speech form Positive Imperative Be quiet Order + infinitive He ordered me to be quiet. Negative Imperative Dont come here again. Tell + not + infinitive He told us not to go there again. Imperatives used as request Please give me some time. ask + infinitive He asked me to give him some time. Reporting verb is in the present tense, there is no alteration in the reported sentence. Moreover, a sentence in direct speech in a present or future tense can stay unchanged if what is said is still true. 27

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

A. The Purpose of the Research

This study is entitled “An Error Analysis in Learning Direct and indirect Speech of Imperative Sentences ”. Then, the purposes of this study are as follows: 1. To know the error that students make of SMK Perwira in learning reported speech of imperative sentence. 2. To find out the reasons why the students doing errors in learning reported speech of imperative sentence. B. Time and place of the study The writer conducted her research at SMK Perwira which is located on Jl . H. Dilun No 4 Ulujami South Jakarta. The research was carried on February17 th up to March 05 th ,2014.

C. Population and sample of the study

In this study the writer took the population of the first year students of SMK Perwira. The students consist of two classes. Class X AK-1consist of 39 students, class X MP-2 consist of 32 students. So, the total number of the first year students of SMK Perwira Jakarta is 71. The writer decided not to take the whole population as sample in her study. She only took one class X AK-1 which consists of 39 students. The sample is taken by using purposive sampling technique.

D. Method of the study

To do the research, the writer used qualitative method. After that the writer collected data with using instruments. There are two kinds of instrument that the writer used: English written test and Interview.