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Old 27-Jun-2007, 16:13
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Default indirect speech is equivalent with reported speech?

what about direct speech?

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what about direct speech?

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Reported speech is the same term for indirect speech.
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Default Re: indirect speech is equivalent with reported speech?

Mad-ox

Your sentence grammar is not correct. An English question has to start with a question word. Is indirect speech equivalent with reported speech? (I prefer 'equivalent to' but 'equivalent with' also seems to be used.)

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Reported speech is not the same term.... Reported speech is another term for indirect speech. The meanings are the same, not the terms.
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