This is also known as indirect speech and is a way of relating words spoken or written by someone else. Reported speech is usually introduced by verbs such as dire ‘to say, to tell’, scrivere ‘to write’, annunciare ‘to announce’, and the conjunc- tion che: i giornali annunciano che i soldati hanno massacrato migliaia di bambini ‘the newspapers say that the soldiers have massacred thousands of children’.