SPEAKING : SPEECH

·        Direct speech

   Saying exactly what someone has said is called direct speech (sometimes called quoted speech). Here what a person says appears within quotation (“…”) and should be word for word.

·        Indirect speech

    Indirect speech (sometimes called reported speech), doesn’t use quotation marks to enclose what the person said and it doesn’t have to be word for word. When the reporting speech, the tense usually changes. This is because when we use reported speech, we are usually talking about a time in the past (because obviously the person who spoke originally spoke in the past). The verbs therefore usually have to be in the past.

·        Example

NO.	Direct speech	Indirect speech
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.	He said, “The woman is coming.” He said, “The woman may come.” Ali said, “I will do it or never.” He said to me, “Where are you going?” He asked me, “Can you come along?” He said to me, “Don’t come late.”	He said the woman was coming. He said that the woman might come. Ali said that he would do it now or never. He asked me where I was going. He asked me if I could come along. He asked me not to come late.