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English for Migrants

Thursday, 27 August, 2015

Indirect Speech

"Dinner is ready�. How else can you say this? Migrants are great story tellers and use Direct Speech a lot in their speaking and writing. How can you change direct speech into indirect speech? In this lesson you will learn the grammatical rules for changing direct speech into reported or indirect speech and also discover the benefits in making this change?

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