Direct Sentence to be Indirect Sentence

Making Direct Sentences to be Indirect Sentences

We have found 4 direct sentences. Then, we will change those sentences become Indirect sentences.

Sentence 1
Direct :
“We have created a new ecological process, the process of mega-rafting,” said Steven L. Chown, a professor of biology at Monash University in Australia, who was not involved in the report, but wrote a commentary that also appeared in Science. “The development of materials that can float for ages, and the rising levels of seas due to climate change, make the possibility of these events larger and larger.”

Indirect :

Steven L. Chown, a professor of biology at Monash University in Australia, who was not involved in the report, but wrote a commentary that also appeared in Science said that they had created a new ecological process, the process of mega-rafting and the development of materials that could have floated for ages, and the rising levels of seas due to climate change, had made the possibility of these events larger and larger.


Sentence 2 
Direct :
“This was our first heads up, that this was the vanguard of what might be coming from Japan,” said one of the report’s co-authors, James T. Carlton, a professor emeritus of marine sciences at Williams College. “After that, we got a steady stream of reports of boats, buoys and other debris, all with Japanese markings, and all carrying an amazing cross section of Japanese sea life.”

Indirect :
One of the report’s co-authors, James T. Carlton, a professor emeritus of marine sciences at Williams College said that it had been their first heads up, that it had been the vanguard of what might be coming from Japan, after that, they had gotten a steady stream of reports of boats, buoys and other debris, all with Japanese markings, and all carrying an amazing cross section of Japanese sea life.


Sentence 3
Direct :
“We found that hundreds of species could survive for multiple generations at sea,” said Dr. Carlton, who is a former director of William’s Maritime Studies Program in Mystic Seaport, Conn. “They could do this so long as their rafts did not dissolve or sink.”

Indirect : 
Dr. Carlton, who is a former director of William’s Maritime Studies Program in Mystic Seaport, Conn said that they had found those hundreds of species could survive for multiple generations at sea and they could have done that so long as their rafts had not dissolved or sunk.

Sentence 4
Direct :
“We have loaded the coastal zones of the world with massive amounts of plastic and materials that are not biodegradable,” he said. “All it takes is something to push this into the ocean for the next invasion of species to happen.”

Indirect :
He said that they had loaded the coastal zones of the world with massive amounts of plastic and materials that are not biodegradable, all it took had been something to push that into the ocean for the next invasion of species to happen.

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