There are two ways to report speech: direct speech uses the speaker's exact words within quotation marks, while indirect speech reports the meaning without exact words by potentially changing pronouns and verb tenses. Direct speech can show a character and add variety but long speeches can bore readers. Indirect speech allows for brevity to maintain pace and contrast between spoken words and internal thoughts. Writers should use indirect speech mainly and reserve direct speech for emphasizing characters' key points.

1. Direct and Indirect Speech

3. Direct Speech In direct speech we use the speaker’s own words. “ In text we put speech marks around the words spoken” “ Speech marks are also called inverted commas”