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Reported speech

noun
Word Frequency: 0.2

Definitions

1.noun(grammar) A form of speech used to express what another has said, often involving a change in tense.
"If we were to change "Fred says, 'I will do the housework'" into reported speech it would become "Fred said that he would do the housework.""

Synonyms

indirect speechbackshiftrecastshadowingrenarrationtranscripteseretroscriptingautoecholaliaretellingre-recordinggerundizationrescript
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