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Dirrect and Indirrect Speech

Dirrect and Indirrect Speech

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Definition
Dirrect speech refer to reproducing another person's exact words or saying exactly what someone has said.

Indirrect speech refer to reproducing the idea of another person words that doesn't use quotation marks to enclose what the person said and it doesn't have to be word for word.

Here a the backshift of tenses:
FROM TO
Simple Present Simple Past
Simple Past
Present Perfect Past Perfect
Past Perfect
Will Would
am/is/are was/were
Was/were
has been Had been
had been

Time Signal:
Dirrect Speech Indirrect Speech

Now Then
Today That day/that night
Yesterday The day before/The previous day
Tomorrow The next day/following day
Last week The previous week
Next week The following week
A year A year before

There are three kinds of dirrect and indirrect speech:
  1. Statement
  • Dirrect speech (Present Tense): The students go to the library once a day
  • Indirrect speech (Past Tense): The students went to the library once day
  • Dirrect speech (Present Countinous Tense): The students are reading books now
  • Indirrect speech (Past Countinous Tense): The students were reading books then
  • Dirrect speech (Past Tense): The students borrowed books last week
  • Indirrect speech (Past Perfect Tense): The students had borrowed books the previous week
  • Dirrect speech (Present Perfect Tense): The students have returned the books
  • Indirrect speech (Past Perfect Tense): The students had returned the books
  • Dirrect speech (Future Tense): The students will borrow novels tomorrow
  • Indirrrect speech (Future Tense): The students would borrow novels the following day
  • Dirrect speech: The girls say, "We like reading een magazines."
  • Indirrect speech: The girls say that they like reading teen magazines.
  • Dirrect speech: Woody says,"I am on my way home."
  • Indirrect speech: Woody says that he is on his way home.
  • Dirrect speech: Riana says, " I can do this myself."
  • Indirrect speech: Riana says that she can do that herself.
2. Question
  • Dirrect speech: Peter asked me,"Do you play football?"
  • Indirrect speech: Peter asked me whether I played football.
  • Dirrect speech: Peter asked me,"When do you play football?"
  • Indirrect speech: Peter asked me when I play football.
3. Command
  • Dirrect speech: Mother said to me, "Turn off the TV and preapare yourself."
  • Inddirect speech: Mother told me to turn off the TV an preapare myself.
  • Dirrect speech: Nollan said to me, "Don't go anywhere after tou have done our homework."
  • Indirrect speech: Nollan told me not to go anywhere after I had done my homework.

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