Indirect speech to direct speech - exercise 5
Change the following sentences from indirect to direct speech.
Liz said she didn't speak Greek at all.
I don't speak Greek at all.
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Direct and indirect speech exercises and grammar rules with examples.
From indirect to direct speech
If we want to tell someone what another person said or thought, we can use indirect or direct speech.
Indirect speech: Samantha said that she had stayed there the year before.
Direct speech: "I stayed here last year," said Samantha.
When we change the indirect speech to direct speech we usually change tenses (had stayed - stayed), pronouns (she - I), time (last year - the year before)) and place (here - there).
Moreover, we use different punctuation (commas at the end of statements) and quotation marks in the direct speech.
They told me they didn't want to move to Bristol.
"We don't want to move to Bristol," they told me.
Our grandma thought that Timothy would be the best student in his class.
"Timothy will be the best student in his class," our grandma thought.