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Reported speech

Learning English Grammar

CHAPTER

How to Report Speech

We use reported speech when we want to report something that another person said. We need to make some grammatical changes when we report what someone else says. The reporting verb comes first, then the question word and then the reported sentence with the tense moved back. And now, are you ready? For a quiz? It's quiz time.

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