Direct and Indirect Speech

>>Direct Speech
Refers to reproducing another person’s exact words or saying exactly what someone has said.
>>Indirect Speech
Refers to reproducing the idea of another person’s words that doesn`t use quotation marks to enclose what the person said and it doesn`t have to be word for word.

In time expressions and pronouns :
Direct Speech
Now
Today
Yesterday
Tomorrow
Last week
Next week

Inderect Speech
Then
That day/that night
The day before/the previous day
The next day/following day
The previous week
The following week

Example :
Direct Speech
“I`m going to the zoo”,he said.

Indirect Speech
He said he was going to the zoo.