DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH

A. Direct Speech 
Direct speech refer to reproducing another person’s exact words o saying exactly what someone had said (sometimes called quated speech)
Here what a person says appears within quatation marks (‘’...’’) and should be word for word.


B. Indirect Speech 
Indirect speech reproducing the idea of another person’s word doesn’t use question mark to enclose what the person said and it doesn’t have to be word foe word. Indirect speech is sometimes called reported speech.


TENSE CHANGE 
• When reporting speech the tense usually changes. This is because when we use reported speech, we are usually talking about a time in the past (because obviously the person who spoke originally spoke in the past). The verbs therefore usually have robe in the past too.
• Note : reporting verbs that are usually used ti report imperative sentence are : tell, other command, ask, warn, remind. 


Present Simple 
Past tense
Direct : Iis said ‘’ I eat fried chicken’’. 
Indirect : Iis said that she ate fried chicken.


Past Simple
Past Perfect
Direct : Mother said ‘’ I want to market yesterday’’
Indirect : Mother said (that) she had gone to market the day before.
Future Simple
Past Future 
Direct : Dheppy said ‘’ I will buy a notebook next week’’. 
Indirect : Dheppy said (that) she would buy a notebook the week after.


Present Continuous
Past Continuous
Direct : Sinta said ‘’ I’m playing badminton ‘’
Indirect : Sinta said she was plating badminton.


Past Continuous
Past Perfect Continuous 
Direct : She said ‘’ I was teaching earlier’’
Indirect : She said she had been teaching earlier