INDIRECT SPEECH

1. Direct speech or quoted speech
2. Indirect speech or reported speech
3. Changing Direct Speech into Indirect Speech
4. Changes made when converting Direct to Indirect Speech
5. Reporting a question

There are two ways to report what a person says: Direct speech and Indirect speech. In Direct speech, we use the exact words that someone says with the use of quotation marks. In Indirect speech, we report what someone says without using their exact words. We don't use quotation marks with indirect speech, but we have to change the pronouns and the tense of the verb.