Reported Speech Definition & Examples

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To turn the sentence into reported speech, you generally shift the verb tense back one step and adjust pronouns if needed. Here’s how it works for this sentence:

Direct Speech: "I'm reading a great book," Sarah said to her friend.

Reported Speech: Sarah told her friend that she was reading a great book.

Here's the breakdown:

• "I'm" becomes "she was" because we shift present continuous ("am reading") to past continuous ("was reading").
• We also drop the quotation marks and add "that" to link the sentence smoothly.

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