Exercise: Active vs. passive
Exercise: Reported Speech
If you have read this article on how to turn direct speech into reported speech, you can now test your knowledge by answering the questions below and completing the sentences in indirect...„We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us“ – Malcolm X’s life and legacy
54 Years ago today, on the 21st of February in 1965, one of the most important representatives of the US-American Civil Rights Movement Malcolm X was shot dead during a public appearance in New York. In order to honor this controversial and often misrepresented...
He said, she said: Reported speech and backshift of tenses
When you report what someone has said, you need to turn the direct speech, i.e. the actual spoken words, into indirect speech. In doing so, there are some rules you need to keep in mind that will be explained in the following. Let’s have a look at an example in...
Review: Hidden Figures (2016)
Picture source: 20th Century Fox. Three women and a car that has broken down, alone on a country road somewhere in Virginia. From afar, a police car approaches. However, the three women are not relieved, but, on the contrary, very nervous. Because we are in 1961, the...Gefördert vom
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