Direct & Indirect Speech
Reporting what someone said, and everything that has to shift when you do.
What this lesson covers
Direct & Indirect Speech is a 8-part Class 5 English lesson. Each part makes one point and then hands over to the next, so it can be read in a sitting or picked up again at the part you stopped on. It defines the idea in plain words before using it, works through an example step by step, breaks the topic into its parts and compares them, shows where it is used outside the textbook, names the mistakes that cost marks in an exam, ends with a recap of what to remember.
How it begins
Direct speech gives the exact words, inside quotation marks. Sara said, "I am tired."Indirect speech (also called reported speech) tells you what was said without quoting it. Sara said that she was tired.Notice how much quietly changed: the pronoun, the verb tense, and the punctuation.
The 8 parts
- Two ways to report speech
- The three things that shift
- Punctuation in direct speech
- A full conversion
- Reporting questions and commands
- Where reported speech is used
- Where it usually goes wrong
- What to remember
Practise Direct & Indirect Speech
Everything on QuizByt for Class 5 English that goes with this lesson: read it first, then test yourself while it is fresh.
🧠 11 quizzes on Direct & Indirect Speech (8 easy, 2 medium, 1 hard)
Work up from easy to hard: the hard quiz asks the Class 5 exam-style questions on Direct & Indirect Speech.
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Direct & Indirect Speech on paper for Class 5, with room to write the working out. Preview the first page free.
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