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PP 1 Quoted and Reported Speech 
Quoted Speech (Direct Speech) 
“What time is the meeting?” Tom asked. 
Abdul replied, “It’s at 1 o’clock.” 
Sue asked Pat, “What did you do on Sunday?” 
“I visited my brother,” Pat answered.
Reported Speech (Indirect Speech) 
Tom asked what time the meeting was. 
Abdul said that the meeting was at 1 o’clock. 
Sue asked Pat what she had done on Sunday. 
Pat said that she had visited her brother. 
Notes: PP1 
Quoted speech uses quotation marks and the exact words that a person has said.
Reported speech (also called indirect speech) relates what the person said, but does not 
use the exact words. You often need to change verbs and pronouns to keep the original 
meaning.
(The students may notice that verb tenses change in reported speech. The general rule is 
that reported speech “backs up” one verb tense. This will be explained in further detail 
later in the lesson. For now it is good enough to notice that quoted and reported sentences 
have different structures.) 
Ask the students where they might find quoted speech. 
Possible answers: fiction, news articles, and casual conversation when relating a story. 
Ask the students where they might find reported speech. 
Possible answers: Meeting reports and summaries, daily conversations and news stories.
In other words: Both quoted and reported speech are used frequently! 
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Verbs Used to Quote Speech 
The most common verb used for quoting speech is say.
A. “I will retire next year,” the manager said. 
B. The manager said, “I will retire next year.” 
When quoting questions, ask is used. 
A. “Is it true you will retire this year sir?” Asif asked. 
B. Asif asked, “Is it true you will retire this year, sir?” 
Note that sentence types A and B are both grammatically correct.
In journalism, sentence type A, with its attribution at the end, is used almost exclusively.

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