Reported Speech & Voice: Advanced

What this lesson covers

Reported Speech & Voice: Advanced is a 11-part Class 10 English lesson. Each part makes one point and then hands over to the next, so it can be read in a sitting or picked up again at the part you stopped on. It defines the idea in plain words before using it, works through an example step by step, breaks the topic into its parts and compares them, shows where it is used outside the textbook, names the mistakes that cost marks in an exam, ends with a recap of what to remember.

How it begins

Examination questions ask you to convert between direct and indirect speech, and between active and passive, without changing the meaning. Marks are awarded for accuracy of transformation: tense, pronoun, word order and punctuation must all be correct simultaneously. But the more valuable skill is knowing what each choice does: reporting permits paraphrase, and the passive can remove an agent.

The 11 parts

1. Transformation is a marked skill
2. The complete backshift
3. The exceptions to backshift
4. A mixed passage transformed
5. The passive across every tense
6. Difficult passive constructions
7. Choosing voice and reporting verb deliberately
8. Where accuracy matters
9. Where marks are lost
10. What to remember
11. Watch one worked through