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What is Understanding Reported Speech about?
Napoleon said that he had fought sixty battles and had learned nothing. Reported or indirect speech tells us what people have said without using quotation marks. It also usually changes the tense of verbs from what was said in direct speech. For example, if someone said "I know the answer" in reported speech it would be "She said that she knew the answer." Pronouns like I and you change to refer to the person who spoke, and words referring to time and place like tomorrow change depending on when the speech
- Author
- Nguyên Bùi
- Language
- EN