Direct and Indirect

Direct Speech / Quoted Speech

Saying exactly what someone has said is called direct speech (sometimes called quoted speech)

Here what a person says appears within quotation marks ("...") and should be word for word.

For example:

She said, "Today's lesson is on presentations."

or

"Today's lesson is on presentations," she said.

Learning English

Basic English

Question: What is sentence?

Answer: A group of words which has a subject and a predicate and gives clear and complete sense is called sentence.

Question: What are the components of sentence?

Answer:  A sentence usually has a subject, (a modal auxiliary verb/a helping verb), a verb and an object/a complement.

Question: What is subject?

Answer: In sentence doer of action or the person, thing or place which we are talking about is called subject.

Example:

He is writing a letter.
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