Question

She said, “We will run outside to play.”
The above sentence is in direct speech.
A)True
B)False

Answer 1

Hint: Direct speech is stating what the speaker quoted as it was spoken, without altering it.

Complete step-by-step answer:

As we can understand from the hint, direct speech is about quoting the speaker as the quote was spoken. We see that the sentence given to us in the question doesn’t alter the quote and is written as it was spoken by the speaker. Thus, it matches with the description of direct speech given to us in the hint.
Hence, we have verified that the statement is in direct speech. Option A – True is the correct answer.

Note: There are two types of speech – Indirect speech and direct speech. We have already discussed the direct speech in the solution. Indirect speech is how the speech is described or reported by the listener.
For example the indirect speech form of the sentence in question will be, “She said that we will run outside to play.” It alters the sentence by the addition of the word ‘that’.