Direct/Indirect speech 2 ways of reporting (re-telling) what other people said: Way 1:
E.g. An English teacher said the following: -We will do a composition today. -You have to hand in your homework before the end of the lesson. The teacher said, “ We will do a composition today. ” The teacher said, “ You have to hand in your homework before the end of the lesson. ”
Features: 1. Exact wording of the original spoken sentence, no change of any words needed. 2. Open & ( “ ) close ( ” ) quotation marks needed for the spoken sentence. 3. Comma (, ) added to separate the two verbs. 4. Reporting verbs like say, tell, ask added.
Way 2: E.g. An English teacher said the following: -We will do a composition today. -You have to hand in your homework before the end of the lesson. The teacher said that we would do a composition that day. The teacher said that we had to hand in our homework before the end of the lesson.
Features: 1. “ that ” instead of comma (, ) added to separate the two verbs. 2. Change of words: e.g. “ We will do a composition today. ” The teacher said that we would do a composition that day.
E.g. -You have to hand in your homework before the end of the lesson. The teacher said that we had to hand in our homework before the end of the lesson.
3. Reporting verbs like say, tell, ask added.