Required Answer
❒ There are two ways of reporting what someone has spoken:
a) When the exact words spoken by a person are used , it is called direct speech.
b) When the words spoken by a person are put in our own words , it is called indirect speech.
➺ For example:
❒ Suppose your friend told you that you have a good handwriting. You want to convey this to your parents.You can do it in either of these two ways :
- My friend said to me, "You have a good handwriting. (Direct speech)
- My friend told me that I had a good handwriting.(indirect speech)
❒ Related information :
- The exact words of the speaker, written within Quotation marks or Inverted commas (“ ”) is called Reported speech.
- The verb that introduces the Reported speech is called a Reporting verb
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❍ How verbs change in reported speech?
[tex]\boxed{\boxed {\begin{array}{ |c |c|} \sf{\bf{\underline{Direct \: Speech}}}&\sf{\bf{\underline{Indirect \: Speech}}} \\ \\ \sf{Simple \: present} & \sf{Simple \: past} \\ \\ \sf{Present \: continuous }& \sf{Past \: continuous} \\ \\ \sf{Present \: perfect}& \sf{Past \: Perfect} \\ \\ \sf{Present \: perfect \: continuous }&\sf{Past \: Perfect \: continuous} \\ \\ \sf{Simple \: past}&\sf{Past \: perfect} \\ \\ \sf{Past \: \: perfect }&\sf{Past \: Perfect } \end{array}}}[/tex]
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