B1 · Intermediate
Reported speech · Range
Reported speech (range of tenses)
Estimated study time: about 47 minutes
Meaning and purpose
Backshift across tenses with reporting verbs
Examples
She said she had been waiting for hours.
Correct versus incorrect
Correct
She said she had been waiting for hours.
Incorrect example
No paired incorrect sentence has been authored for this lesson yet.
Common misconception
Backshift; pronoun/time changes
Practice and review
This lesson has 44 exercises. Choose how you want to practise.
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Answer all, then check
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