Direct and Reported Speech

She said who she had seen him

She said she saw him

She said that she had seen him

My parents asked me why I was crying.

My parents asked me why I am crying.

My parents asked me why I had been crying.

Repeated speech

Repeated statements

Reported speech

Reported statements

Inverted commas

Quotation marks

Both of the above

Direct Speech

Reported Speech

Direct Speech

Indirect Speech

How someone else said before.

What you are saying.

How we represent the speech of other people.

When somebody else said.

It was really late, we needed to go.

It is really late, we needed to go.

I have gone to the movies with my friends.

He had gone to the movies with his friends.

Direct speech

Indirect Speec