Direct speech:
It is also called straight speech or quoted speech, which is spoken or written directly in the text by the speaker, writer, or the first person, who is going to speak with anyone with him The spoken statements of the speaker normally come under the inverted commas notation, and a speaker who speaks these sentences may come like “he said/he said that.”
The speaker’s words or statements are mentioned in a single phrase pattern or direct discussion.
Indirect speech:
An Indirect speech is also called a reported speech, or secondary speech means the speech, which has spoken indirectly.
It is simply an overlook statement that is used to say about the incident that has happened in the past time.
The actual words of the speaker changed into the pastdirect-and-indirect-snd hence the reported speech of the direct speech does not come inside the inverted com
What is Speech (Narration):
If we want to describe the speech of some other people with other people in our own words, that speech is called a Reported speech or Narration.In the English language, there are certain ways to express the spoken words between two people.
The speech has two main types, Direct speech, and Indirect speech, respectively.
These two ways of narration of spoken words are also called Direct and Indirect speech, also known as Direct and Indirect narrations.
Direct and indirect speech is majorly used in any conversations, scripts, or any biographies, etc. where one or more than one person converses with each other.
Direct speech:
It is also called straight speech or quoted speech, which is spoken or written directly in the text by the speaker, writer, or the first person, who is going to speak with anyone with him.The spoken statements of the speaker normally come under the inverted commas notation, and a speaker who speaks these sentences may come like “he said/he said that.”
The speaker’s words or statements are mentioned in a single phrase pattern or direct discussion.
Indirect speech:
An Indirect speech is also called a reported speech, or secondary speech means the speech, which has spoken indirectly.It is simply an overlook statement that is used to say about the incident that has happened in the past time.The actual words of the speaker changed into the past tense and the sentence, and hence the reported speech of the direct speech does not come inside the inverted commas.
Reporting speech:
A person who is going to report the speech or a speech that comes in the first part of the direct speech is called a reporting speech.
- He says, “He cooks food”.
Reported speech:
Reported speech is a speech that is always in an inverted comma or quotation marks.
It is a second part of the direct speech sentence.
- He says, “He cooks food.”
Reporting verb:
The verb, which is used in a reporting speech to report something in a direct speech, is called a reporting verb.
- Zoya said, “I want to go there.”
Reported verb:
The verb which comes inside the reported speech is called reported verb, respectively.
- Zoya said, “I want to go there.”
As we start writing any direct and indirect conversation, we often use reported verbs like “say, tell, ask, inform, instruct, claim, suggest, enquire, etc.”
These reported verbs, whenever used in direct or indirect speech, change into the past simple form like said, told, asked, informed, instructed, claimed, suggested, enquired, etc.
But the verbs used in a speech between the inverted commas will remain as it is.
Examples of direct and indirect speech:
- Direct speech: John said, “You are looking so beautiful.”
- Indirect speech: John said that she was looking so beautiful.
- Direct: He said, “He is not a culprit.”
- Indirect: He said that he was not a culprit.
- Direct: He said, “she is working on this project.”
- Indirect: He said that she was working on that project.
- Direct: The teacher said, “Do you complete your homework?”
- Indirect: The teacher asked if he completed his homework.
- Direct: She says, “She is an artist.”
- Indirect: She says that she is an artist.
- Direct: Sam told, “I’m not coming with you.”
- Indirect: Sam told me that he was not coming with me.
- Direct: He says, “she is working on this project.”
- Indirect: He says that she is working on that project.
