Direct and Indirect Speech
wps.pearsoned.com › wps › media1 DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH When the actual words of the speaker are reproduced, it is called direct speech. Example: He said, ‘ I am going to school.’ When the main idea of a speaker’s words is reported by another person and the exact
Reported speech Rules
first-english.org › english_learning › reportedYou can use reported speech. Example: He said he worked in a bank. The tenses, word-order, pronouns may be different from those in the direct speech sentence. Direct speech: Jake said: I bought some DVDs. Reported speech: Jake said that he bought some DVDs. Simple Present. Simple present tense usually changes to the simple past in reported speech.