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Quoted speech

Quoted speech is a sentence (or several sentences) that reports speech or thought in its original form, as phrased by the first speaker.It is usually enclosed in quotation marks. The cited speaker is either mentioned in the inquit (Latin "he says") or implied.

Let’s say you and your friend, Rebecca, are eating dinner at a restaurant on Saturday night.  Rebecca tells you all about her boyfriend indra.  She tells you what indra told her on Friday.  She can say it in two ways.

The first way is called “quoted speech.”  Quoted speech is exactly what the person said.  Here is an example:

indra said, “I need to take a taxi.”

According to the above sentence, indra said exactly those words.

Reported speech

The other way of repeating what a person says is called “reported speech.”  Reported speech is not exactly what the person said.  It is like a summary or paraphrase of what the speaker said.  Take a look at the following example:

indra said that he needed to take a taxi.

This is not exactly what indra said.