Please I need correction. Reported Speech (unit 7)

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Hi Teachers,I have written this explanation, could you correct it if necessary?To me to say 'personal pronouns' is not very appropriate. Shouldn't I say 'subject pronouns' instead?Reported SpeechIt is used to report what another person said. It almost never reproduces another person’s exact words. To write reported speech sentences certain changes are necessary.The most important changes are:a) Changes in verb tensesb) Changes in personal pronouns and possessive adjectives and pronouns.c) Changes in expressions of time.d) When we change a sentence from Direct Speech to Reported Speech we always remove quotation marks, commas, question marks, and exclamation marks.Thanks in advance

CopenhagenCalling · Accepted Answer

Personal pronoun and subject pronoun are two different levels of analysis and the terms can not be interchanged.

Personal pronouns may be divivded into subject, object and possessive pronouns.

There is a really good and easy explanation of it all here: http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/pronoun.asp

So the answer is: depends what you want to say

Cheers

Tenacious Learner · Answer

Hi,

Thank you so much for your reply. That's what I thought. The book was wrong.

Best,

TS

Please I need correction. Reported Speech (unit 7)

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