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Reported Speech - Coggle Diagram

- - - - is third person pronoun
        
        (he, she)
  - - - Subject
      - of
        reporting is also first person pronoun
        
        (I or we)
- - - - without quotation
        marks.
  - - - We put quotation marks around their words
        
        and add a speech tag such as
        
        he said
        
        she asked
        
        before or after the quote
- - - - ask
      - tell
      - say
      - and we may use the word
        
        that
        
        to introduce
        the reported words.
- - - - She said, "I am tired." = She said that she
        was tired.
- - - - "I saw him today", she said. She said that she had seen him that day. "I saw him yesterday",she said.
- - - - In indirect speech, we change the question structure (e.g. Do you like)
        
        to a statement
        structure (e.g. I like).