Reported speech 😎

What is it?

You can use reported speech to report what a person said without using the exact words that he or she said.

It can be used in two ways: direct and idirect speech.

Direct speech

Here you literally say what the other person said with quotation marks.

Example: Mariana said, "I am sad today."

We usually called direct speech to the positive or negative statements too.

Indirect speech

On the other hand, on idirect speech you say what the other person said, but without quotation marks. It means that you should use the word "that" to introduce what the other person said, and probably you will need to change the verb tense.

Here you have example of how to use reported speech depending on the type of tense:

 Notice that when you develop an indirect speech you change the main verb of the sentence. This is not complicated, depending on the kind of tense in which the direct speech is you must change the verb.

❄ This video will give you a deeper explantion about this topic: