Organizing the message
Direct and indirect speech
Direct and indirect speech
Are we repeating someone's words or telling what they said?
direct speech
indirect speech
reporting verb
reporting clause
Значення
We can repeat someone's words or report their message in our own words. Repeating the words is direct speech; reporting the message is indirect speech, which can also report thoughts or questions. Languages differ in how they mark these reports, and some have no special verb forms for them. Unlike According to whom, which identifies whose view a statement expresses, this block is about how we report words or thoughts.
Як це розпізнати
Look for words or thoughts presented as someone else's, and check whether they are quoted or fitted into the reporter's own sentence.