DIRECT & INDIRECT SPEECH

Direct and Indirect speech
Direct Speech refers to reproducing another person’s exact words or saying exactly what someone has said (sometimes called quoted speech)
We use quotation marks (“__________”) and it should be world for word

For Example :
Nicky said, “it’s hot
Or
“it’s hot, “Nicky said”

Indirect speech refers to reproducing the idea of another person’s words that doesn’t use quotation marks to enclose what the person said and it doesn’t have to be word for word

Indirect Speech is sometimes called reported speech

The tense usually changes when reporting speech this is because we are usually talking about a time in the post and obviously the person who spoke or ginally spoke in the past.

Remember
The changing of tenses
Direct speech Indirect speech Present continousPast continousSimple present tenseSimple pastSimple past Past perfect Present perfectPast perfectPresent futurePast futureModals Can
May
must Modals
Could
Might
Had to The verbs there fore usually have to be in the fast too
- Note : the reporting verbs that are usually used to report imperative sent are : Tell, order, command, ask, warn, remind
- Don’t forget to mention the indirect object father warned me motto drive fast
- When we want to report what someone said, we do not usually repeat their exact words, we use words. We can use reporting verbs, such as tell, say, ask followed by that–clause?
Example : My mother said that she got up at 5 O’clock
- When reporting verbs is in the present, present perfect, or future, there is no change of tense in the words reported
Example :
- She will tell you
- She has just haid

Time signal
Direct Indirect Now Today
Tonight
Yesterday
....ago
Tomorrow
The day after tomorrow
Here
This
These Then
That day
That night
The day before
The night before
..............before
The folowing day
There
That
those Sometimes we need to report someone’s questions the reported question are introduced with the verb ask, inquire, wonder, want to know, etc.