What is reported speech with example?
Reported speech is when we tell someone what another person said. To do this, we can use direct speech or indirect speech. direct speech: ‘I work in a bank,’ said Daniel. indirect speech: Daniel said that he worked in a bank.
What are types of reported speech?
There are two main types of reported speech: direct speech and indirect speech. Direct speech repeats the exact words the person used, or how we remember their words: In indirect speech, the original speaker’s words are changed.
Which is an example of an interjection in speech?
Interjection is a part of speech in English language. An interjection is a word that expresses a strong emotion. It expresses emotion of joy, sorrow, excitement, wonder surprise, pain, sadness, happiness, and so on. e.g. Oh, Wow, Hurrah, Alas, Ouch, Oops, Aha, Yahoo, Eww, e.t.c. Examples:
Which is an example of a reported speech?
Reported speech is a speech that is always in an inverted comma or quotation marks. It is a second part of the direct speech sentence. He says, “He cooks food.” The verb, which is used in a reporting speech to report something in a direct speech, is called a reporting verb. Zoya said, “I want to go there.”
When do you put reporting verb before indirect speech?
That has been placed before the Indirect Speech. When the verb in one sentence reports, what is said by some speaker in another sentence, the verb in the sentence is called the reporting verb and what is said in the second sentence is called the Reported speech. “Here is the pen you were looking for yesterday.”
When to replace an exclamatory phrase in indirect speech?
In indirect speech, the exclamatory phrase or word (interjection) is replaced by ‘exclaimed with joy, sorrow, regret, surprise, contempt etc.’ The connective that has to be supplied in the indirect speech. Examples are given below: Direct: The boy said, ‘Hurrah!