The document discusses direct and indirect, or reported, speech. It explains that direct speech uses quotation marks to report what someone said verbatim, while indirect speech reports the essence of what someone said without necessarily using their exact words. Indirect speech often changes verb tenses depending on when the statement was made. For example, if reporting something said in the past, the tense would be changed to the past tense. The document provides several examples of how tenses are changed between direct and indirect speech statements.