Direct and indirect speech are two ways of reporting what someone has said. Direct speech uses quotation marks to report the exact words. Indirect speech does not use quotation marks and makes certain changes to reflect that it is a report of what was said rather than the exact words. Some key changes in indirect speech include changing pronouns, adverbs of time and place, and verb tenses. Questions are usually reported before an auxiliary verb using "if/whether" and before question words using the question word as the conjunction.