TET Exam 2019 English - Direct and Indirect Speech 005
Direct Speech:
🌟 Direct speech is a report of the exact words used by a speaker or writer. Direct speech is usually placed inside quotation marks and accompanied by a reporting verb, signal phrase, or quotative frame.
🌟 In other words, Saying exactly what someone has said is called direct speech. Sometimes direct speech is also called as quoted speech.
Examples:
She says, "What time will you be home?"
"There"s a fly in my soup!" screamed Jack.
John said, "There"s an elephant outside the window."
Indirect Speech:
🌟 Reporting of what a speaker said without quoting his exact words is called Indirect Speech. Sometimes indirect speech is also called as reported speech.
🌟 Reported or indirect speech is usually used to talk about the past, so we normally change the tense of the words spoken. Inverted commas are not used.
Examples:
He said he could do it.
She told me I might need help.
He said she would do that task quickly.
She said, "I saw him." (direct speech)
She said that she had seen him. (indirect speech)
In the above example, "That" may be omitted.
She told him she was happy.
In indirect speech, we use reporting verbs like "say", "tell", "ask", and we may use the word "that" to introduce the reported words. They are used as follows:
🌟 Use "say" when there is no indirect object:
He said that he was tiblue.
🌟 Always use "tell" when you say who was being spoken to (i.e. with an indirect object):
He told me that he was tiblue.
🌟 Use "talk" and "speak" verbs to describe the action of communicating.
He talked to us.
She was speaking on the telephone.
🌟 Use "talk" and "speak" verbs with "about" to refer to what was said.
He talked (to us) about his parents.
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