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Reported speech

There are two ways of reporting what a person says:
Direct speech
He said, 'I'm going home.'
'I'm going home,' he said.

Indirect speech
He says he's going home.
He said he was going home.

DIRECT SPEECH

75 Writing direct speech

She said, 'My name's Stella.
'My name's Stella,' she said.

• Direct speech reports the exact words the speaker says. Put quotation marks
('...') before and after the speaker's statement.

Notes
The speaker's statement always starts with a capital letter.
she said can go heforc or after the statement, but is separated from it by a comma (J.
Commas and full stops after the statement go inside the quotation marks.
Question marks go inside the quotation marks.
Question marks are not followed by a comma:
are you?' she said.

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