EnglishClub Reported Speech
EnglishClub Reported Speech introduces reported speech, the structure used to say what another person said, in a lesson by EnglishClub founder Josef Essberger. The page explains the difference between direct speech and reported speech, mentions indirect speech, and links to separate lessons on reported statements, backshift, time and place, questions, requests and orders, and to a reported speech quiz.
100% Free (unlimited): This introduction is open to every learner on EnglishClub, with no account and no payment. The linked lessons on reported statements, backshift, time and place, questions, requests and orders, and the quiz are on the same website.
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The lesson opens by setting a quoted sentence beside the same sentence in the speaker's own words, then divides the subject into six short pages reached from the top: reported statements, backshift, time and place, reported questions, reported requests and reported orders. Each one explains its point with example pairs, and a quiz at the end covers the whole lesson.
Follow the six pages in the order they are listed rather than jumping to the one you need; backshift is the step everything else rests on. Read each example pair aloud, first the quoted sentence and then the reported one, which makes the change audible as well as visible. Leave the quiz until you have been through all six.
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