Question

defination of reported speech

Answer 1

In very simple reported speech are those words who is in inverted commas..
And other means that,, that words are that which was said by anyone.....which is written in direct and indirect speech in inverted commas..

Answer 2

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The act of reporting tge words of a speaker is called narration. There are basically two ways in which the words of the speaker can be conveyed in writing.

Direct Speech : The Reporting of the words of the speaker without making any changes to it is known as Direct Speech. Direct speech is shown inside double quotation marks.

Indirect Speech : The act of Reporting the words of the speaker by making necessary changes to it is called Indirect Speech.

Examples :

Direct Speech : She said, "I am playing".

Indirect Speech : She said that she was playing.