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Understanding Reported Speech Rules by aseret_es is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses reported speech, which is used to report what someone else has said. It provides examples of how to change direct speech into reported speech by backshifting tenses when the original statement was in the past tense. Common tense changes include simple past becoming past perfect and present becoming past. Reported questions become statements using whether or if, and reported commands use the infinitive form introduced by "to tell." Time expressions like today become that day. The docum
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- aseret_es
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