
REPORTED SPEECH When you are reporting someone's words you've got two ways to do it: using the exact words used by the speaker >>> DIRECT SPEECH (Example: 'I'm tired', he said) reporting the speaker's words >>> REPORTED SPEECH or INDIRECT SPEECH (Example: He said he was tired) However, before we begin explaining how it works, we must say that the reported speech we will be talking about is a very artificial one as we suppose the situation in which the words were said and the situation in which the words were reported are completely different, but this is not always true. Actually, they may be exactly the same, as in the following example: - "I have brought you here these exercises" (SITUATION: the teacher is speaking and the students are listening) - One students raises his hand and says: "Pardon. What did you say?" - "I have just said that I have brought y...