REPORTED SPEECH

WHAT IS REPORTED SPEECH

A QUICK LOOK INTO IT

PUNCTUATION

While in Direct Speech, the general rules are: Quotation marks ("...") are used both at the

beginning and at the end of a quote. The first word of a quote needs to have a capital. All end punctuation, a period (.), a question mark

(?), or an exclamation point (!), must be inside of the quotation marks.

When the quote comes after the person who said it is mentioned or in the middle of the sentence, use a comma.

IN REPORTED SPEECH..

Forget about commas Forget about quotation marks Forget about question or exclamation

marks.

VERB TENSES IN REPORTED SPEECH

Present Simple Past Simple

Past Simple Past Perfect

Present Perfect Past Perfect

Future (will) (would)

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