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English lessons: rules, use, and practice Reported speech in English: reporting commands     Reporting commands   Commands are statements of requests, suggestions, warnings, advices, offers, regrets, and orders. Reporting commands is very easy compared to questions and statements. You just drop “to” before the main verb if it is positive and “not to” if […]

English lessons: rules, use, and practice Reported speech in English: reporting questions Reporting questions In reported speech, we not only report statements but also questions. We have two kinds of questions: open and closed questions. Open question: What are you doing? Closed question: Are you in school right now? The open question is a question

English lessons: rules, use, and practice Reported speech in English: reporting statements  In English grammar, reported speech is how we represent the speech of other people or what we say or said. There are two kinds of reported speech: direct and indirect. The speech we report basically includes two clauses: the reporting clause and the

The most commonly used phrasal verbs in English language classrooms A phrasal verb is a combination of words (a verb + a preposition or verb + adverb). When used together, phrasal verbs’ meanings are, most of the time, different from the original verbs. When we use a certain phrasal verb, we use it like normal verbs in a sentence,