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B1, direct, position, REPORTED SPEECH / accepted, added, admitted, advised, agreed, allowed, announced, argued, blogged, breathed, called, charged, complained, confirmed, continued, coughed, cried, decided, declared, demanded, described, directed, encouraged, ended, explained, failed, guessed, included, informed, insisted, interrupted, joked, laughed, lied, managed, mentioned, noted, noticed, offered, ordered, P, posted, prayed, predicted, pressed, promised, pronounced, realized, received, recommended, refused, reminded, repeated, replied, reported, requested, returned, screamed, shared, shouted, spilled, stressed, suggested, texted, typed, underlined, VVD, warned, wondered

The following two B1 points are only different in the order. Point 4 in REPORTED SPEECH is defined as: DIRECT SPEECH, REPORTING CLAUSE, INITIAL POSITION: report speech and thought directly, using the reporting verb before the reporting clause Point 9 is END POSITION: report speech and thought directly using the reporting verb after the reporting …

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B2, PAST, perfect, REPORTED SPEECH, simple, statements / added, admitted, announced, claimed, confessed, confirmed, explained, had, indicated, mentioned, repented, reported, revealed, stated, testified, VVD, VVN, wrote

Point 75 in the category of PAST is defined as: Past perfect simple to report statements, where the main verb in the reporting clause is in the past simple. *This point overlaps B1. So we might surmise that ‘said’ and ‘told’ are B1 and other reporting verbs might be B2 within this structure. A search …

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B2, NEGATIVE, PASSIVES, perfect, simple / achieved, announced, approved, been, charged, confirmed, has, have, mentioned, named, not, provided, published, reached, removed, reported, tested, updated

In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 20 in the category of PASSIVES is defined as: PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE, NEGATIVE often in the context of reporting reported speech   A search on iWeb for _vh _xx been _vvn: 1 HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED 3143 2 HAS NOT BEEN SEEN 3058 3 HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED …

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B2, NEGATIVE, PASSIVES, PAST, perfect, simple / allowed, announced, applied, approved, arrested, been, charged, cleared, confirmed, considered, created, delivered, destroyed, developed, discovered, had, informed, installed, introduced, invented, mentioned, not, provided, published, raised, reached, removed, reported, tested, touched, trained, updated

In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 17 in the category of PASSIVES is defined as: PAST PERFECT passive SIMPLE negative form. A search on iWeb corpus for had _xx been _vvn The most common in ranking order are: SEEN, MADE, GIVEN, USED, PAID, TOLD, and TAKEN. Ranked 9 is ‘HAD NOT BEEN INFORMED’   …

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