Reported or indirect speech 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. Inverted commas are not used.

Reported speech is\xa0a speaker\’s words reported in subordinate clauses governed by a reporting verb, with the required changes of person and tense.
The way of reporting speaker\’s words called reported speech.It may be direct or indirect speech