Question

Direct and indirect speech. no copy or spam otherwise delete ur account or answer.

Answer 1

Direct speech:

• when the exact word used by a speaker are reproduced within Quotation Marks, it is called Direct speech.

Indirect speech:

• when the substance of a speech is conveyed in the reporter's words, it is called Indirect speech.

• The exact words of the speaker which are put within Quotation Marks or Inverted Commas ("..") is the Reported Speech.

• The verb that introduces the Reported Speech is called the Reporting Verb.

Rᴜʟᴇs ᴏғ Cʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ

⠀⠀Dɪʀᴇᴄᴛ ɪɴᴛᴏ Iɴᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛ Sᴘᴇᴇᴄʜ:

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★When the reporting or principal verb is in the Past Tense, all Present tenses of the direct are changed into the corresponding Past Tenses.

★The Tense in Indirect Speech is NOT CHANGED if the words within the quotation marks talk of a universal truth or habitual action.

★Simple Present Changes to Simple Past

★Present Perfect Changes to Past Perfect

★Present Continuous Changes to Past Continuous

★Simple Past Changes to Past Perfect

★Past Continuous Changes to Past Perfect Continuous

★Future Changes to Present Conditional

★Future Continuous Changes to Conditional Continuous

⠀⠀⠀⠀Cʜᴀɴɢᴇ ɪɴ Mᴏᴅᴀʟs:

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⟶CAN changes into COULD

⟶MAY changes into MIGHT

⟶MUST changes into HAD TO/WOULD HAVE TO

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Answer 2

In linguistics, indirect speech is a grammatical mechanism for reporting the content of another utterance without directly quoting it. For example, the English sentence Jill said she was coming is indirect discourse while Jill said "I'm coming" would be direct discourse.

Direct speech is a sentence in which the exact words spoken are reproduced in speech marks (also known as quotation marks or inverted commas). For example: "You'll never guess what I've just seen!" said Sam, excitedly. "What's that?" asked Louise.