PECULIARITIES OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH (DISCOURS DIRECT ET INDIRECT) IN FRENCH LANGUAGE

The use of someone else’s opinion in the form of an independent sentence together with the author’s speech while preserving the lexical, grammatical and semantic features of the opinion of other people is called an indirect sentence. On the other hand, a direct speech is when the author restates someone else’s words while retaining the content, but adopting their lexical, grammatical, and semantic characteristics. This article discusses the specific features of direct and indirect speech in French.