When changing from direct to indirect speech, you need to change the grammar in certain ways. In this section, we are going to be looking a little more closely at direct and indirect speech and how they are used.  Verb Tense Changes in Reported Speech Present If the reporting verb is in the present tense, then very little…

Reported speech is simply when we tell somebody what someone else said. You can do this in your writing, or in speech. Reported speech is very different from direct speech, which is when you show what somebody said in the exact way that they said it. In reported speech though, you do not need to quote somebody…

When we use reported speech, we are referring to something that was said either by ourselves or by someone else in the past. An example of this might be he said that he was going shopping. This type of speech is used very frequently during both spoken and written examples of English and it is…