reported speech

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Noun

reported speech 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."”

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indirect speech backshift recast shadowing renarration transcriptese retroscripting autoecholalia retelling re-recording gerundization rescript rearticulation rewrite language shift enallage reborrowing

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