B1 · Intermediário Capítulo 34

Reported Speech

1 Regras totais
1 min

O que você vai aprender

Shifting tenses and pronouns in indirect speech. Managing complex reporting verbs.

Dicas e truques (1)

💡

Pronoun Check

Always pause and think: 'Who is the subject now?' before you say the pronoun.
frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Indirect Speech

Regras neste capítulo (1)

Prática rápida (3)

Choose the correct reporting verb structure.

Она ___ мне прийти.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: сказала
Requires dative + infinitive.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Indirect Speech

Correct the sentence.

Find and fix the mistake:

Он сказал, что я идет.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: Он сказал, что он идет.
Pronoun and verb agreement.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Indirect Speech

Fill in the blank with 'что' or 'ли'.

Он спросил, ___ я приду.

✓ Correct! ✗ Not quite. Correct answer: ли
It is an indirect question.

frontend.learn_grammar.from_rule: Indirect Speech

Score: /3

Perguntas comuns (2)

In formal writing, yes. In casual speech, it is sometimes dropped.
Russian indirect speech maintains the original tense of the speaker.