Question

What is indirect or direct speech

Answer 1

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What is Direct & Indirect Speech?

Direct speech – reporting the message of the speaker in the exact words as spoken by him.

Direct speech example: Maya said ‘I am busy now’.

Indirect speech: reporting the message of the speaker in our own words  

Indirect speech example: Maya said that she was busy then.

Rules of converting Indirect Speech into Direct Speech

The following rules should be followed while converting an indirect speech to direct speech:

• Use the reporting verb such as (say, said to) in its correct tense.

• Put a comma before the statement and the first letter of the statement should be in capital letter.

• Insert question mark, quotation marks, exclamation mark and full stop, based on the mood of the sentence.

• Remove the conjunctions like (that, to, if or whether) wherever necessary.

• Where the reporting verb is in past tense in indirect, change it to present tense in the direct speech.

• Change the past perfect tense either into present perfect tense or past tense, as necessary.

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Answer 2

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• When we report the exact words of the speaker and write them within inverted commas, it is said to be in indirect speech.

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• In reported or indirect speech, we do not report the exact words of the speaker but convey the substance a meaning of a person's speech.

(We make some changes when we refer to time, place, personal pronouns and possessive adjectives. The inverted commas are not used in indirect speech.)

$\bf{\red{Example:}}$Gargi said that she enjoyed watching the movie Avatar.

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