Direct and Indirect Speech

Direct and Indirect Speech
Direct speech
ü Refers to reproducing another person’s exact words or saying exactly what someone has said.
Indirect Speech
ü Refers to reproducing the idea of another person’s words that doesn’t use quation marks to enclose what the person said and it doesn’t have to be word for word.
In time expression and pronouns
Direct Speech Indirect Speech
§ Now - Then
§ Today - That day/ that night
§ Yesterday - The day before/ the previous day
§ Tomorrow - The next day/ following day
§ Last week - The previous week
§ Next week - The following week
Example:
D : She says, “I’m very good in Engish”.
I : She says, that he she very good in English”.
D= Direct speech I= Inderect speech

Statement
D : Mrs. Eliot said “ I worked hard for make a song yesterday.”
I : Mrs. Eliot said that she worked hard for make a song the day before.

Questions
D : Jack aksed “ Are you Miss World 2010?”
I : Jack aksed if/ wherher I was Miss World 2010.

Request/ command
D : Daey said to Justin Bieber “ Don’t wory about it”
I : Daey told Justin Bieber not to wory about it.

Direct Speech Indirect Speech
Simple Present - Past Tense

Simple Past - Past Perfect
Simple Future - Past Future
Present Continuos - Past Continuos

Past Continuos - Perfect Continuos