Direct & Indirect Speech

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                       Direct & Indirect Speech

 Direct Speech
Direct speech refers to reproducing another person’s exact word or saying exactly what someone has said (sometimes called quoted speech).Here what a person say appears within quotation marks (“ ..”)and should be word for word.

Example :

      Leah said “I will go to the market”

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

      Sarah said  “ I will go to the Palma with June this afternoon”.

      “I shall playing basket ball this afternoon in the Mantikei Fields” Rocky said.

Indirect Speech

Indirect speech reproducing the idea of another person’s word 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.

      Leah said she would go to the markeet.

      Kia said he might go to the headmaster room right now.

      Sarah said she would go to the Palma with bella this afternoon.

      Rocky said He should playing basket ball  this afternoon in the Mantike field.






  

                                                                                                     

  

DIRECT	INDIRECT
Simple present	Simple past
Simple Past	Past perfect
Present Perfect	Past perfect
Present continous	Past continous
Present perfect continous	Past perfect continous
Simple future	Past future

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

  

DIRECT SPEECH	INDIRECT SPEECH
Now	Then
Today/tonight	That day/that night
Yesterday	The day before/the pervious day
Tomorrow	The next/following day
Last week	The pervious week
Ago	The week after before

Will

She said “I”ll teach English online tomorrow”.

Can

She said,”I can teach English online.”

Must

She said.”I must have a computer a to teach English online”.

Shall

She said,”What shall we learn today?’’

May

She said,”May I open a new browser?”

INDIRECT SPEECH

Would

She said sahe would teach Englishonline tomorrow.

Could

She said she could teach English online.

Had to

 She said she had to have a computer to teach English online.

Should

She asked what we should learn today

Might

She asked if she might open a new browser.