Reported speech 2
Reported speech (2)Remember that in reported speech we usually change the tense of the direct statement. The present simple tense changes to the past simple, the past simple changes to the past...
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Reported questionsWhen we report what people say, we usually change the tense of the verbs to reflect that we are reporting – not giving direct speech. This pattern is followed when we report...
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Reported speech (1)When we report someone’s words we can do it in two ways. We can use direct speech with quotation marks (“I work in a bank”), or we can use reported speech (He said he worked in a...
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Try this grammar exercise. If you want more information about this area of grammar you can click the link(s) in the Grammar Support block on the right.TaskExercise
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Try this grammar exercise. If you want more information about this area of grammar you can click the link(s) in the Grammar Support block on the right.TaskExercise
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