Step 1: General Introduction: Direct speech and reported speech
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Direct and Indirect Speech also known as Quoted and Reported Speech. We use direct speech to report what exactly has been said. If we write t he speech down, the words will usually appear in quotation marks. However, we often prefer to use reported speech or indirect speech to report the meaning of what has been said without using the exact words. Now let’s look at a sentence:
She said,‘I have been writing a book on the history of China.’
If you want to tell this sentence to someone else, what will you report? We can change it into: She said she had been writing a book on the history of China.
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1. In the section, we will learn the definitions of direct speech and reported speech, how to use direct speech to repor t what exactly has been said, and to use reported speech or indirect speech to report the meaning of what has been said without using the exact words. For example:
