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6.   Verbs  – Active and Passive Voices,

          Direct and Indirect Speeches

6.1   Active Voice and Passive Voice

   6.1.1   Active voice

   6.1.2   Passive voice

         6.1.2.1   Changes from active voice to passive voice
               6.1.2.1.1   The object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb
               6.1.2.1.2   In the passive voice, the subject receives the action of the verb

               6.1.2.1.3   The transitive verb in the active voice becomes intransitive in the passive voice

               6.1.2.1.4   The passive-voice construction cannot take an object. The passivized sentence could be                                      continued with the agent.

         6.1.2.2   Construction of the passive voice

         6.1.2.3   Uses of the passive voice

         6.1.2.4   Conjugation for the passive voice

6.2   Direct Speech and Indirect Speech

   6.2.1   Direct Speech / Quoted Speech

   6.2.2   Indirect Speech / Reported Speech

         6.2.2.1   No quotation marks in indirect / reported speech

         6.2.2.2   Tense changes in indirect / reported speech

         6.2.2.3   Changes of expression of time in indirect / reported speech

         6.2.2.4   Changes of expression of place in indirect / reported speech

         6.2.2.5   Changes of pronouns in indirect / reported speech

         6.2.2.6   Reporting verbs used in indirect / reported speech

         6.2.2.7   Use of “that” in indirect / reported speech

         6.2.2.8   When reporting questions, the word “that” is never used; instead, we often use the word “if.

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