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- Practice the English pronunciation of backshift with real speech in context.
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- Definition summary
- (grammar) The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
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A Deep Dive Into “backshift”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (grammar) The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
- (statistics) A function on a stochastic process whose value on any random variable is the preceding random variable in the process.
- [Verb]
- (grammar, transitive) To change the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
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