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definition of reported and reporting speech

Answer 1

Definition of reported speech: a speaker's words reported in subordinate clauses governed by a reporting verb, with the required changes of person and tense (e.g. he said that he would go, based on I will go )

Answer 2

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Reported Speech (also called Indirect Speech) is used to communicate what someone else said, but without using the exact words. A few changes are necessary; often a pronoun has to be changed and the verb is usually moved back a tense, where possible.

Direct speech and reported speech are the two ways we can say what someone has said. ... Because we are talking about something that happened in the past, we use past tense verbs in reported speech: said not say; was not am