Use these verbs to describe the action of communicating.
Use this word when you say who was being spoken to.
Use this word when there is no indirect object.
Direct speech
Es un ejemplo de direct speech.
Indirect speech
Es un ejemplo de indirec speech.
Tell
He said that he was tired.
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.
She says, "What time will you be home?"
We report what a nother has said, repeats, or quotes, the exact words spoken.
Talk and speak
Say
