| 1. Direct Speech: | e.g., “Can I have some cake?” or “Who is the cake for?” |
| 2. Indirect Speech: | e.g., “She is asking her mother if she can have some cake.” or “Who the cake is for.” |
| 3. Partially Indirect/Mixed: | e.g., “Can she go eat cake?” (where the response seems to have features of both direct and indirect speech forms) |
| 4. Ambiguous: | e.g., “Eat cake.” (where the response doesn’t fit clearly into any of the above three categories) |