英语必修 4 译林牛津 Unit 1 精品学案(直接引语与间接引语 02)● Grammar and usageStep 1: General Introduction: Direct speech and reported speech For referenceDirect and Indirect Speech also known as Quoted and Reported Speech
We use direct speech to report what exactly has been said
If we write the speech down, the words will usually appear in quotation marks
However, we often prefer to use reported speech or indirect speech to report the meaning of what has been said without using the exact words
Now let’s look at a sentence:She said,‘I have been writing a book on the history of China
’If you want to tell this sentence to someone else, what will you report
We can change it into: She said she had been writing a book on the history of China
In the section, we will learn the definitions of direct speech and