HOW DO YOU CONVEY A MESSAGE TO

OTHER PEOPLE? OR HOW WOULD YOU

RETELL A STORY OR MOVIE YOU HAVE
WATCHED?
COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE FOLLOWING
SENTENCES:

1. What made sentences A different from sentences B?

2. What is their similarity?
3. When do we use sentences A? sentences B?
Direct Speech – original words of person are narrated and are
enclosed in a quotation mark.
Example: Thomas said, “I will call you tomorrow.”

Indirect Speech – original words of person are reported

observing some changes and are not enclosed in a quotation
mark.
Example: Thomas said that he would call me the next day.
Identify if the statement is a direct or indirect speech.

__________ 1. She said, "What time will you be home?" and I said, "I don't know! "
__________ 2. She told him that she was happy.
__________ 3. "There's a fly in my soup!" screamed Simone.
__________ 4. She said that she had seen him
__________ 5. John said, "There's an elephant outside the window.
 RULES IN CHANGING DIRECT SPEECH TO
INDIRECT/REPORTED SPEECH
Rule 1: Use of conjunction “that” before the indirect speech except in case of imperative
sentences and exclamatory sentences.
Example: Hari said, “I am very tired.” Hari said that he was very tired.
Rule 2: Change in pronouns of first and second person in Direct speech to third person in indirect
speech taking into account the gender of the subject.
Example: Ram said “I am very busy”. Ram said that he was very busy.
Rule 3: If reporting verb is in Present or Future Tense, the tense of the verb in the reported speech
is not changed.
Example: He says “I am busy”. He says that he is busy. He will say “I was busy.” He will say that
he was busy
Change Direct Speech to Indirect Speech
1. I say, ― “I want to sleep.”
2. He says, ― “I like sweets.”
3. You said, ― “I will meet the doctor.”
4. They said, ― “We are starting now.”
5. Mother said to me, ― “I was waiting for you for a long time.”