I am going to divide this topic into several areas. First I will begin with an introduction including a brief definition both of direct and indirect speech. Then I will move on to deal explain in detain both direct and indirect speech. In the third...
In the following topic we will study the concepts of direct reported speech and indirect reported speech with the grammatical implications that are involved in their study. In the second part of our analysis, we will centre on the main aspects related to indirect...
In the case of direct speech, the exact words are ‘incorporated’ (using quotation marks in writing) within the reporting sentence and retain the status of an independent clause but with a function in the reporting sentence which may be classed as a comment clause...