Direct speech "Oh, good gracious me!" said Lucy "Look at him" said Mr Emerson to Lucy "Very well, dear," said Miss Bartlett, with a faint flush of pleasure. "Things I didn't want," he said crossly. " You know," the young man urged, "that I have always one thing to say."

Direct speech "Oh, what have I done?" "You have fainted." "I - I am very sorry." "How are you now?"

Indirect speech He said: "You were mad ever to touch the thing“ He said I was mad ever to touch the thing He said he/she was mad ever to touch the thing He said rather vaguely: "How annoying for you!" he said rather vaguely it should be annoying for me.

Free indirect speech The marks of direct speech sentence structure are retained, but the reporting clause is omitted. So that was their plan, was it? He well knew their tricks, and would show them a thing or two before he was finished. Thank goodness he had been alerted, and that there were still a few honest people in the world! FIS in fiction may sometimes represent a person’s stream of thought rather than actual speech.

“So clever” – “Not so good as usual” – “I thought it most unfair,” said Mr Benson and Miss Rosseter, discussing the Saturday Westminster. Did they not compete regularly for prizes? Had not Mr Benson three times won a guinea, and Miss Rosseter once ten and sixpence? Of course Everard Benson had a weak heart, but still, to win prizes, remember parrots, toady Miss Perry, despise Miss Rosseter, give tea-parties in his rooms (…), all this, so Jacob felt without knowing him, made him a contemptible ass. (Jacob’s Room)

Ah yes, she did of course; what a nuisance; and felt very sisterly and oddly conscious at the same of her hat. Not the right hat for the early morning, was that it? For Hugh always made her feel, as he bustled on, raising his hat rather extravagantly and assuring her that she might be a girl of eighteen, and of course he was coming to her party tonight, Evelyn absolutely insisted, only a little late he might be after the party at the Palace to which he had to take one of Jim’s boys – she always felt a little skimpy beside Hugh (…)

Clarissa was really shocked. This a Christian – this woman! This woman had taken her daughter from her! She in touch with invisible presences! Heavy, ugly, commonplace, without kindness or grace, she know the meaning of life!