Which of the following represents direct speech?

Identify the sentence with indirect speech:

What sentence that uses direct speech?

Identify the sentence with indirect speech:

Choose the sentence that correctly shows indirect speech:

In direct speech, the reporting verb "said" is often followed by an object or a person to whom the word were spoken.

Punctuation in direct speech always remains the same as in the original statement.

Indirect speech often requires changes in pronouns, time expressions, and verb tenses to reflect the original speaker's words accurately.

In direct speech, the reporting verb usually comes before the reported speech.

Indirect speech is commonly used in writing to summarize conversations or to report what is someone said at a different time or place.