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Speech Direct Marks Indirect Sentence Exact Words Spoken

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Front Direct and indirect speech
Back Direct speech is a sentence in which the exact words spoken are reproduced in speech marks (quotation marks or inverted commas). Indirect speech or reported speech is when the general points of what someone has said are reported, without actually writing the speech out in full.

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