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Advanced Reported Speech — Discorso Indiretto B2·Error Correction — Identifying Mistakes in Reported Speech
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Rule reminder

Common errors in Italian reported speech include: failing to shift tenses, not changing pronouns, keeping direct deictic expressions (oggi, qui, questo), using the wrong subordinating conjunction, or incorrectly applying the congiuntivo.

Error Correction — Identifying Mistakes in Reported Speech1 / 10

ERROR: «Il direttore chiese cosa facevo qui.» — The more accurate formal version is:

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