DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH

DIRECT SPEECH

Direct speech refers to reproducing another person’s exact words or saying exactly what someone has said (sometimes called  quoted speech)
Here what a person says appears within quotation marks (“…..”) and should be word for word.

For example :
She said, “Today’s  lesson is on presentations.”
Or
“Today’s lesson is on presentations,”she said.

 




INDIRECT SPEECH

Indirect speech reproducing the idea of another person’s words that doesn’t use question mark to enclose what the person said and it doesn’t have to be word for word. Indirect speech is sometimes called reported speech.

For Example:
Direct speech : “I am going to the cinema”, he said.
Indirect speech : He said he was going to the cinema.

 




In time expressions and pronouns :

DIRECT SPEECH        : Now, today/tonight, yesterday, tomorrow, last week, next week, ago…
INDIRECT SPEECH    : Then, that day/that night, the day before/ the previous day, the next/following day, the previous week, the following week/the week after, before.