This practical guide explains the differences between direct and indirect speech, along with essential rules for conversion.

Hello Nuria. Thank you for your question about reported speech, which is an area of grammar that often causes problems for students.

Thus, today’s lesson is a very important one because one of the ways to detect whether someone has mastered English grammar is by closely looking at how he handles Indirect Speech.

Whether it is in direct speech or the indirect, punctuation marks such as the comma, full stop and question mark should be diligently and carefully handled to avoid confusion or outright errors.

reporting questions, suggestions, advice and instructions Ajaz Ali Khan from Pakistan writes: Kindly tell me the rule for converting direct speech into indirect speech.