英语必修4译林牛津unit 1精品
学案（直接引语与间接引语02）
● grammar and usage
step 1: general introduction: direct speech and reported speech
for reference
direct and indirect speech also known as quoted and reported speech. we use direct speech to report what exactly has been said. if we write the speech down, the words will usually appear in quotation marks. however, we often prefer to use reported speech or indirect speech to report the meaning of what has been said without using the exact words. now let’s look at a sentence:
she said,‘i have been writing a book on the history of china.’
if you want to tell this sentence to someone else, what will you report? we can change it into: she said she had been writing a book on the history of china.
