This document discusses direct and reported speech in three paragraphs:
1) It defines direct speech as quotes from a speaker without changes, while reported speech recounts the quotes in different form using reporting verbs and without quotation marks.
2) It explains the uses of direct and reported speech in written and spoken language and gives examples of tense and time reference changes when converting between the two styles.
3) Finally, it provides several examples of converting different types of direct speech sentences like statements, questions, requests and commands into reported speech.