Es un ejemplo de indirec speech.
Es un ejemplo de direct speech.
Use these verbs to describe the action of communicating.
Use this word when there is no indirect object.
Indirect speech
Direct speech
Use this word when you say who was being spoken to.
She says, "What time will you be home?"
We report what a nother has said, repeats, or quotes, the exact words spoken.
Say
Is usually used to talk about the past, so we normally change the tense of the words spoken. We use reporting verbs like 'say', 'tell', 'ask', and we may use the word 'that' to introduce the reported words.
Tell
Talk and speak
He said that he was tired.
