Direct and Indirect speech

Question 1

Direct Speech

Answer 1

Is when you write down what the person actually said using Quotation marks.

Question 2

Indirect Speech

Answer 2

When you write what was said in your words

Question 3

Rules for converting (changing over)

Indirect speech to Direct speech

Answer 3

Use the reporting verb, “say” or “said to” in its correct tense.

Remove the conjuctions “that, to, if or whether etc”. …

Insert quotation marks, question mark, exclamation and fullstop, wherever necessary.

Put a comma before the statement.

Eg: Direct speech
The policeman said to the boy, “Where do you
live?”

  Indirect speech
  The policeman asked the boy where he lived.

Question 4

Change the following Direct Speech into Indirect Speech.

“What time does the train arrive?” she asked

Answer 4

She asked what time the train arrived.

Question 5

Change the following Direct Speech into Indirect Speech.

“When can we have dinner?” she asked.

Answer 5

She asked when they could have dinner.

Question 6

Why do we use Indirect speech?

Answer 6

We use reported speech (INDIRECT) when we want to repeat what someone had previously said. … In reported speech (INDIRECT) we need to use the PAST TENSE form of the verb.
In DIRECT SPEECH the PRESENT TENSE is used.