Matching Pairs Act. Comp. 3.1 Inglés 1 (LIA)Online version Relaciona los conceptos según corresponda by Marco Antonio Pérez Cruz 1 Use these verbs to describe the action of communicating. 2 Use this word when there is no indirect object. 3 Es un ejemplo de direct speech. 4 Direct speech 5 Use this word when you say who was being spoken to. 6 Es un ejemplo de indirec speech. 7 Indirect speech He said that he was tired. Tell We report what a nother has said, repeats, or quotes, the exact words spoken. 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. Say Talk and speak She says, "What time will you be home?"