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Direct and Indirect Speech
Direct and Indirect Speech
1. A linker is used to link the words outside the inverted commas and inside the inverted commas or to link the words
before the colon mark and after the colon mark.
There are four kinds of sentences. We do not use the same linker to link the words outside the inverted commas and
inside the inverted commas or the words before the colon mark and after the colon mark. The table given below shows
the different linkers used with different kinds of sentences.