"Speechless" comes from the word "speech" to which you add the suffix "-less". Its meaning in Spanish is "sin palabras". This noun comes from the verb "to speak". The opposite of the suffix "-less" is "-ful". Examples of words enging in "-less": hopeless, friendless, breathless, careless, cheerless, faithless, harmless, painless, etc.
"Reported Speech" is called like this because it is used to communicate what someone else said, but without using the exact words. A few changes are necessary; often a pronoun has to be changed and the verb is usually moved back a tense, where possible. It is also called Indirect Speech. The opposite of the Reported Speech is the Direct Speech, which is used to give the exact words used by another speaker. The words are given between quotation marks (" ").
One of the things that left me speechless was visiting the Cathedral of Milan (in Italian Duomo di Milano) last summer. The magnitude of this building left me speechless. It is the most famous church in Milan, the third largest Catholic Cathedral in Europe and the fourth largest in the world.. It has over 3,500 statues, thousands of individual spires, and 5 bronze doors. It´s a construction with a Gothic exterior style and it took six centuries to build. I was amazed by its height and its beauty!
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