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    This document discusses how to report speech in indirect and direct forms. It explains that verb tenses and pronouns change in indirect reported speech, while questions maintain their word order and tense shifts. Indirect questions do not change tense or word order. Different reporting verbs, such as claim or suggest, take different grammatical structures like a that-clause, gerund, or infinitive.

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    This document discusses how to report speech in indirect and direct forms. It explains that verb tenses and pronouns change in indirect reported speech, while questions maintain their word order and tense shifts. Indirect questions do not change tense or word order. Different reporting verbs, such as claim or suggest, take different grammatical structures like a that-clause, gerund, or infinitive.

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    REPORTED SPEECH

    Verb changes (backshift) + pronouns and time expressions change

    Reporting questions
    (No auxiliaries + no change of order + keep tense backshift!):

    Yes/No questions:
    Direct: Did you go to the cinema? – Reported: He asked me if/whether I had gone to the cinema
    Wh- questions:
    Direct: What time is it? – Reported: He asked me what time it was.

    Indirect questions
    (No auxiliaries + no change of order + no tense backshift!):
    I don’t know what time the movie starts
    Could you tell me where the station is, please?

    Other reporting verbs: Claim, suggest, advise, admit, deny, insist….

    Reporting verb + “that clause” Almost all of them: Admit, deny, insist, suggest, advise, explain…
    Reporting verb + gerund (-ing) Admit, deny, suggest, apologise for, insist on, regret, recommend…
    Reporting verb + to Infinitive Agree, offer, ask, expect, promise, order, invite, warn…

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