The basics of Reported speech

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Across
  1. 3. Indirect speech focuses more on
  2. 6. She thought that she needed a new direction in life. This is an _____________ of what somebody thought.
  3. 7. It repeats the exact words the person used, or how we remember their words:
  4. 10. The ___________ includes a verb such as say, tell, ask, reply, shout, usually in the past simple.
Down
  1. 1. ‘I will love you forever,’ he wrote, and then posted the note through Alice’s door. this is _______ of what somebody wrote.
  2. 2. The words of the original speaker are enclosed in ________.If the reported clause comes first, we put the comma inside the inverted commas
  3. 4. ________of what someone said rather than their exact words.
  4. 5. In __________, the original speaker’s words are changed.
  5. 8. The _________ includes what the original speaker said.
  6. 9. It is how we represent the speech of other people or what we ourselves say.
  7. 11. In direct speech we usually put a _____between the reporting clause and the reported