| Direct Speech | Indirect Speech |
|---|---|
| "I" am going to the hospital", he said | He said he was going to the hospital |
Direct speech is quoting the exact words of the speaker, the words are usually enclosed in inverted commas (or quotation marks).
Direct speech yana nufin ruwaito haƙiƙanin maganan da wani mutum ya faɗi ne ba tare da canza wani abu daga cikin maganarsaba, kuma sannan akowani lokaci akan sanya maganar da mutumin ya faɗa a cikin quotation mark. Wato wannan alamar ""Indirect speech is usually used to talk about the past, the actual words of the speaker are change. The pronouns of the sentence are change too accordingly. In indirect speech, the actual words of the speaker aren't enclosed in invited commas or quotation marks. Also the word "that" will be used before the actual word of the speaker.
Galibi ana amfani da indirect speech ne domin yin bayani akan abun da ya riga ya faru. Asalin maganar da mutum ya faɗa tana canzawa, kama pronoun na wannan jimlar shima yana canzawa. Ba'a sanya maganar da mutum ya faɗa a cikin invited commas. Kuma sannan ana amfani da kalmar "that" kafin maganar da mutum ya faɗa.In the following example, the pronoun in the sentence is 'I'. But it will change in indirect speech to corresponds to the verb in the sentence.
A wannan misalin da yake ƙasa, pronoun da yake cikin Jimlar shine 'I' Amma zai canza a indirect speech domin yazo daidai da kalmar verb wacce take cikin jimlar
| Direct Speech | Indirect Speech |
|---|---|
| "I am happy" he said | He said that he was happy |
| I said to him, "you are intelligent" | I said to him that he was intelligent |
Karin Misalai
| Direct Speech | Indirect Speech |
|---|---|
| 'I have a pen', he said. | He said that he had a pen |
| 'Come here, John', he said. | He asked John to come towards him. |
| 'Africa is a continent', said the teacher. | The teacher said that Africa is a continent. |
| 'Have you the book?' asked Yusuf. | Yusuf asked him if he had the book. |
| 'Go away!' the soldier ordered Maryam | The soldier ordered her to go away. |
| 'I shall go to Kano', said the driver. | The driver said that he would go to Kano |
| 'We have drunk tea', said Aminatu | Aminatu said that they had drunk tea. |
| 'Our father is working', the boys said. | The boys said that their father was working |
| 'Hurrah!' all the men shouted. | All the men shouted happily. |
| The girl said: 'My mother is a seamstress.' | The girl said that her mother was a seamstress |
| 'I do not know', he said, 'where Adamu lives.' | He said that he did not know where Adamu lived |
| 'We bought the shoes' she said, 'after we had been paid.' | She said they bought the shoes after they had been paid. |
Aika Zuwa
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