Learn more about Direct and Reported Speech in English with this workbook: Direct Speech and Reported Speech. In reported speech, we often change the tense of the verbs. Reported speech: She said she had worked there on Mondays.Direct Speech: She said, “I worked there on Mondays.”.Reported Speech: She told me that the weather was beautiful.
Direct Speech: “The weather was beautiful,” she stated.Reported Speech: He said that the meeting is tomorrow.Direct Speech: “The meeting is tomorrow,” he said.
Reported speech (also called indirect speech ) is when we tell someone what a person, newspaper, book, or something else said without using their exact words. ĭirect speech means to say exactly what someone else said by using quotation marks around their words. In English, there are two different ways to say what someone else said: direct speech and reported speech. Watch the video, read the lesson, and do the exercises:
