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What is indirect speech or reported speech?

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What is indirect speech or reported speech?

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When we tell people what another person said or thought, we often use reported speech or indirect speech. To do that, we need to change verb tenses (present, past, etc.) and pronouns (I, you, my, your, etc.) if the time and speaker are different. For example, present tenses become past, I becomes he or she, and my becomes his or her, etc.

Sally: ‘I don’t have time.’ ⇒ Sally said that she didn’t have time.

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The most common verbs we use in reported speech are say and tell. We must pay attention here. We say tell somebody something, and say something (to somebody).

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When a person said something in the past and now we tell somebody what that person said, the time is different, and for this reason, the verb tenses change.

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When a person said something in the past and now we tell somebody what that person said, the time is different, and for this reason, the verb tenses change.