![Reported speech in English [B2] — VocaVerb](https://vocaverb.com/wp-content/uploads/vv-cat-images/vv-cat-13772-en.png)
Think you know how to report what someone said? This crossword will put your knowledge of reported speech to the test! From backshifted tenses to reporting verbs like claim, admit or warn, sharpen your pencil and show off your B2 grammar skills.
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Clues
Across
- 2. Having little length or duration
- 3. Past tense of ask, used to report
- 7. Without pattern or design
- 10. Speech using exact quoted words
- 12. Group of words with a verb
- 13. Exact words spoken by someone
- 16. To commit to doing something
- 17. Are not in short form
- 18. To propose an idea or action
- 19. For repeated past actions
Down
- 1. Belonging to them
- 4. Dependent clause in reported speech
- 5. Spoken language or discourse
- 6. If-clause structure in reported speech
- 8. A spoken word or phrase
- 9. Act of conveying what was said
- 11. to believe or consider something
- 14. To push a button on keypad
- 15. Continuing up to a point in time
Answers
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Across
- 2. Having little length or duration → short
- 3. Past tense of ask, used to report → asked
- 7. Without pattern or design → plain
- 10. Speech using exact quoted words → direct
- 12. Group of words with a verb → clause
- 13. Exact words spoken by someone → quotation
- 16. To commit to doing something → promise
- 17. Are not in short form → arent
- 18. To propose an idea or action → suggest
- 19. For repeated past actions → would
Down
- 1. Belonging to them → their
- 4. Dependent clause in reported speech → subordinate
- 5. Spoken language or discourse → speech
- 6. If-clause structure in reported speech → conditional
- 8. A spoken word or phrase → utterance
- 9. Act of conveying what was said → reporting
- 11. to believe or consider something → think
- 14. To push a button on keypad → press
- 15. Continuing up to a point in time → still
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