This document provides information about direct and reported speech. It defines direct speech as quoting someone's exact words and reported speech as expressing what someone said without quotes. The document outlines rules for writing direct speech, such as using quotation marks and punctuation. It then discusses rules for changing direct speech to reported speech, such as changing verb tenses and replacing question words. Examples are provided to illustrate applying these rules when changing direct speech to reported speech.

1. English
Quarter 1 - Module 5:
Direct and Reported Speech

2. A direct speech is a sentence that gives a
statement on thought in its original form
according to how the original speaker said.
•Example: “He planted rice in our land,”
replied Pare Crispin.
•“Many men like to borrow rice from me,”
Mang Cesar said.

3. A reported speech is a sentence that expresses
the content of a statement without quoting just like
what is done in direct speech.
•Example: Pare Crispin replied that he
planted rice in their land.
•Mang Cesar said that many men like to
borrow rice from him.

4. •Rules in Writing Direct Speech:
• Place the exact words spoken between the
open and close quotation marks (“ ”)
• Do not change the exact words spoken.
• Place a comma ( , ) before the close quotation
to separate the words of the speaker from the
words of explanation.
• Necessary punctuation marks are put before
the close quotation marks.

5. •Analyze the following examples:
•1. “You must study well,” said carol.
•2. She asks, “What time you be home
tonight?”
•3. “The house is on fire!” shouted the
man

6. •Rules in changing Direct Speech to
Reported Speech:
• State the words spoken by the speaker.
• Remove the quotation marks.
• Place the word “that” before the
speaker. (You may omit the word “that”
if you want.

7. •Analyze the following examples:
•Direct Speech: Mother said, “Marie cooks
Adobo.”
•Reported Speech: Mother said that Marie
cooked Adobo.

8. •Some rules to follow in changing Direct to
Reported Speech:
•1. If the verb of saying is in the present tense, in
the reported speech, the verb must also be in
the present.
•Direct Speech: He says, “I do not know.”
•Reported Speech: He says (that) he does not
know.

9. •2. If the verb of saying is in the past
tense, in the reported speech, the verb
must also be in the past tense.
•Direct Speech: He said, “I didn’t know.”
•Reported Speech: He said (that) he
didn’t know.

10. •3. Yes-No Questions: Use “if” instead of
that in the reported speech.
•Direct Speech: “Will you help me?” he
asked.
•Reported speech: He asked (me) if I
would help (him).

11. •4. Wh-Questions: Use the Wh- word in
the reported speech too.
•Direct Speech: “Why are you crying,
Ana?” he asked.
•Reported Speech: He asked Ana why she
was crying.

15. •Examples:
•Direct Speech: “The watch is mine,” Brion
said.
•Reported Speech: Brion said that the watch
was his.
•Direct Speech: “The bag is yours,” he said.
•Reported Speech: He said that the bag was
his.

16. Change the Direct Speech sentences into
Reported Speech.
•1. “I was bullied by my classmate”, he replied.
•2. “They need to evacuate now”, the mayor
ordered.
•3. “ Doctor, doctor, I am sick”, the little child said.
•4. “You sleep early tonight”, her mother texted.
•5. Mang Enzo said to his kids, “Brush your teeth
three times a day”

17. • 1. He replied that I was bullied by my classmates.
• 2.

18. •2. The bodyguard said, “stop, do not enter!”
•The bodyguard said that they do not enter.
•The bodyguard said that they will not enter.
•3. “Come to school in complete uniform”, Ma’am Sarah said.
•Ma’am Sarah said that we will come to school in complete
uniform.
•4. “My heart will beat only for you”, replied Hannah.
•Hannah replied that her heart will beat only for him.
•5. “Go sleep, it’s late”, said mother.
•Mother said that we go to sleep because it’s late.