Reported Speech

When people say something, we can report what they say directly or refer to what they told us indirectly. Reporting speech is an important area of grammar.

Reported speech in English

Defining direct and indirect speech
How to change verb tenses when reporting speech
How to change time and place references when reporting speech
Reporting questions
Verbs used to report speech
How to report orders, requests, and suggestions
How to report hopes, intentions, and promises

Grammar Usage

NOUNS

ADJECTIVES

What adjectives are and what they are for
Forming and placing adjectives in English
What order to put adjectives in when you are using more than one at a time
Forming the comparative and the superlative of adjectives
Using adjectives to compare qualities
Using adjectives to compare equal quantites
Using adjectives to compare unequal quantites

ADVERBS

What adverbs are and what they are for
Forming adverbs from adjectives
Forming the comparative and the superlative of adverbs
Adverbs of place
Adverbs of time
Adverbs of manner
Adverbs of degree
Adverbs of certainty
Viewpoint and commenting adverbs
Relative adverbs
Interrogative adverbs

VERBS AND VERB TENSE

Present Tenses

- Simple present

- Present continuous

- Present perfect

- Present perfect continuous

Past tenses

- Simple Past

- Past Continuous

- Past Perfect

- Past Perfect Continuous

Perfect tenses

- Present perfect

- Present perfect continuous

- Past Perfect

- Past Perfect Continuous

- Future perfect

- Future perfect continuous

Future tenses

- Simple future tense

- Future continuous tense

- Future perfect tense

- Future perfect continuous tense

Conditional sentences

- Zero conditional sentences

- Type 1 conditional sentences

- Type 2 conditional sentences

- Type 3 Conditional Sentences

- Mixed conditional sentences

The -ing form

- Present participle

- Gerund

Infinitives
Passive voice

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