Direct indirect speech
Direct indirect speech
Direct Indirect Speech is the changing of sentence form from direct form into indirect form or vice versa.
Types of Direct Indirect speech
- Statement
- Question
- Imperative
What do we need to change?
- Pronoun
- Tenses
- Adverbs
| Things to change | Direct | Indirect |
| Pronoun | I | He/ She |
| We | They | |
| Tense | Present | Past |
| e.g. Simple Present | Simple past | |
| Past | Past Perfect | |
| Adverb of Time | Today | That day |
| Now | Then |
| Tomorrow | The following day / the next day | |
| Yesterday | The previous day / the day before | |
| Here | There | |
| This | That | |
| These | Those |
- 1. Statement
S + said/told + (O) + that + Statement ( S+ V+ (O+C))
- Question
- Yes / No Question
S + asked/said + (O) + If/wether + Statement ( S+ V+ (O+C))
- WH- Question
S + asked/said + (O) + Wh- Q + Statement ( S+ V+(O+C))
- Imperative
- Positive imperative
S + ordered/commanded + (O) + to + INF
- Negative imperative
S + ordered / commanded + (O) + not + to + INF
