Direct and Indirect Speech

Direct And Indirect Speech

Indirect speech, also called reported speech or indirect discourse, is a means of expressing the content of statements, questions or other utterances, without quoting them explicitly as is done in direct speech. For example, He said "I'm coming" is direct speech, whereas He said he was coming is indirect speech.

If we look at the direct speech sentence, there are characteristics that are identical quotation marks (") .
When the sentence is converted into direct speech indirect speech sentences, the quotation marks were removed or replaced with the word "that" or "to" (for command line) .

Example :

No	Direct Speech	Indirect Speech
01	He said, "I have a present for you in my bag."	He said that he had a present for me in his bag.
02	He asked me, "why do you come late."	He asked me why I came late.
03	He orderd me, "don't bring a bag."	He ordered me to didn't bring a bag.

Sentence structure changes also occur if the direct speech using a sentence question, it will be converted into an affirmative sentence (news) .

To direct speech sentences or questions using "yes-no question" it will be changed to if / Whether

Example :

No	Direct Speech	Indirect Speech
01	They asked me, "Do you want to join us to play football?"	They asked me if/whether I want to join them to play football.
02	He asked me, "Does she want to mary me?"	He asked me if/whether she wants to mary her.

To direct speech sentences using 5W1H question (Why, Who, What, When, Where, How), it will be converted into an affirmative sentence as follows:

No	Direct Speech	Indirect Speech
01	He asked me, "why do you come late?"	He asked me why you came late.
02	He asked me, "what does she eat?"	He asked me what she ate.
03	He asked me, "when did you come?"	He asked me when I came.
04	He asked me, "who are you?"	He asked me who I was.
05	He asked me, "who is she?"	He asked me who she was.