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The document discusses reported or indirect speech. It explains that reported speech can be used to tell someone else what another person said by changing the tense, word order, and pronouns from the original statement. Specifically, the present simple tense usually changes to the past simple tense in reported speech, while the present continuous tense usually changes to the past continuous tense. Reported speech also takes a "step back" in time compared to direct speech by using past verb tenses.

Author

Leonardo Perez Alegria

Language

EN