Direct Speech

When you want to report in the same way what somebody has told you or what you have heard somebody saying, you use what is called direct speech.

Examples :

The words in the inverted commas are the exact words of the speakers. They can be written as -

• The teacher said," Reading is fun."
• Grandfather said,"We must plant trees."

In direct speech, the words of the speaker appear within the punctuation marks called quotation marks or inverted commas ("...").