Direct & Indirect Speech

DIRECT & 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.

Examples :

-  Sumarni said “I will go to the library”.

- “I must go to the Headmaster room right now” Mitha said.

-  Rama said “I will go to the Palma with Bella this afternoon”.

- “I shall playing basket ball this afternoon in the Mantikei Field” Adhe 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.

Examples :

- Sumarni said she would go to the library.

-  Mitha said she might go to the Headmaster room right now.

- Rama said he would go to the Palma with Bella this afternoon.

- Rama said he should playing basket ball this afternoon in the Mantikei Field.

 TENSE CHANGE

DIRECT	INDIRECT
Simple present	Simple past
Simple past	Past perfect
Present perfect	Past perfect
Present continuous	Past continuous
Present perfect continuous	Past perfect continuous
Simple future	Past future

DIRECT	INDIRECT
Am, is, are	Was/were
Shall/will	Should/would
Can	Could
May, must	Might
Have/has to Ought to	Had to

 

 

 

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