Direct and Indirect Speech Course
This course equips you with skills to expertly handle direct and indirect speech, enabling accurate and professional reporting in emails, notes, and summaries. Delve into tense shifts, reporting verbs, politeness strategies, and tone adjustments to ensure your communications are clear, concise, and audience-friendly in any work context.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain mastery in direct and indirect speech for precise reporting of conversations in professional settings. Cover tense backshifting, pronoun adjustments, time expressions, questions, commands, suggestions, modal verbs, and conditionals with practical templates, exercises, and real-life examples from notes and emails.
Elevify advantages
Develop skills
- Master reported speech by converting dialogues quickly and precisely.
- Transform questions and commands using correct tense, pronoun, and time changes.
- Adapt speech tone and register for polite professional reporting.
- Justify grammar decisions clearly and convincingly.
- Convert meeting discussions into concise notes blending direct and indirect speech.
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