Relacionar Columnas Act. Comp. 3.1 Inglés 1 (LIA)Versión en línea Relaciona los conceptos según corresponda por 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 Use this word when you say who was being spoken to. 4 Direct speech 5 Es un ejemplo de direct speech. 6 Es un ejemplo de indirec speech. 7 Indirect speech He said that he was tired. Tell Say We report what a nother has said, repeats, or quotes, the exact words spoken. She says, "What time will you be home?" Talk and speak 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.