Direct
Speech / Quoted Speech
Saying exactly what someone has said
is called direct speech (sometimes called quoted speech)
Here what a person says appears
within quotation marks ("...") and should be word for word.
For example:
She said, "Today's lesson is on
presentations."
or
"Today's lesson is on
presentations", she said.
Indirect speech (sometimes called
reported speech), doesn't use quotation marks to enclose what the person said
and it doesn't have to be word for word.
When reporting speech the tense
usually changes. This is because when we use reported speech, we are usually
talking about a time in the past (because obviously the person who spoke
originally spoke in the past). The verbs therefore usually have to be in the
past too.
For example:
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Direct
speech
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Indirect
speech
|
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"I'm going to the
cinema", he said.
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He said he was going to the
cinema.
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EXAMPLE DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH :
1.
D : She says to her friend, “ I have been reading “
I : She says to her friend that he has been reading
2.
D : He will say, “ The girl wasn’t ugly “
I : He will tell them that the girl wasn’t ugly
3.
D : Ahmad said, “ I’m very sleepy “
I
: Ahmad said that he was very sleepy
4.
D
: He has told you, “ I am writing “
I
: He has told you that he is writing
5.
D
: Mother said to her son, “ study
hard “
I
: Mothe advised her son to study hard
6. D
: My friend said to me, “ I don’t
like football “
I
: My friend said to me that he didn’t
like football
7.
D
: She said, “ I didn’t go to campus
I
: She said that she hadn’t gone to
campus this morning
8.
D
: Hana says, “ I have seen that
movies “
I
: Hana says that she has seen that
movies
9.
D
: Mother asked her, “ Don’t go there
alone “
I
: Mother asked her not to go there
alone
10.
D
: Father asked robi, “ Don’t smoke
too much “
I
: Father asked robi not to smoke too
much
