Quoted Speech

What is quoted speech??

Do you know about direct and indirect speech?

What is quoted speech?

Quoted speech refers to reproducing words

exactly as they were originally spoken.

Quotation marks (“…”) are used.

Quoted speech is also called direct speech.

Reported speech is also called indirect speech.

There are three ways to make preferable

quotation of speech. Please you may click

Quoting one sentence Explanation

a. She said, “My brother is a student.”

In (a) use a comma after she said. Capitalized the first word of the quoted sentence. Put the final quotation marks outside of the period at the end of sentence.

b. “My brother is a student,” she said.

In (b) use a comma, not a period, at the end of the quoted sentence when it precedes she said.

Quoting more than one Explanation

c. “My brother is a student. He is attending a university,” she said.

In (c) quotation marks are placed at the beginning and end of the complete quote. Notice: there are no quotation marks after student.

Quoting a question or an exclamation

Explanation

d. She asked, “When will you be here?”f. “When will you be here?” she asked.g. She said, “Watch out!”

In (e) the question mark is inside the quotation mark In (f) if a question mark is used, no comma is used before she asked. In (g) the exclamation point is inside the quotation marks.

Reported speech

Reported speech refers to using a noun clauseto report what someone has said. No

quotation marks are used.

For further lesson in understanding between quoted and reported speech. Lets go to the next slide

Quoted speech/ Direct speech

Reported speech / Indirect speech

a. She said, “I watch TV every day.”

She said (that) she watched TV everyday.

b. She said, “I am watching TV.” She said she was watching TV.

c. She said, “I have watched TV.”

She said she had watched TV

d. She said, “I watched TV.” She said she had watched TV

e. She said, “I will watch TV.” She said she would watch TV

f. She said, “I am going to watch TV.”

She said she was going to watch TV

g. She said, “I should study hard.”

She said that she should study hard

h. She said, “Watch TV.” She told me to watch TV

i. She said, “Do you watch TV?” She asked me whether I watched TV

There some reported verbs that can be used to express quoted speech, such as: stated, say (said), told, asked,

order, commanded, etc.

General pattern for understanding quoted

speech:

Simple present Simple past

Video lesson

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how to make the quoted speech well.

After you studied the lesson explained

previously. Please you may try to have some

exercises below…

Exerciseschange into indirect (reported) speech

“I want a sandwich,” Jenifer said.“I’m going to move to Ohio,” said Bruce Sam asked, “Where is Amanda?”“Can you come to my party?” asked

David“I may be late,” said Mike Felix said, “You should study harder.” Barbara said, “I have to go downtown.” “I will come to the meeting,” said JuanJenifer asked, “What do you want?”