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We use think in the past simple or past perfect tense to indicate a belief that was previously held but that has been shown to be incorrect For example I didn t think she was going past simple I had thought that she wasn t going past perfect The exception is in converting from direct to reported...

I don t really understand the question either Konstantin you re referring to the Conditional with your German example Indirect speech in German works differently as the Conjunctive has to be used in formal German which however can be replaced by the Conditional would infinitive In English the...

How should I change the following to indirect speech He said You had better finish it now The question is what the past tense of had better is Thanks

At school we were taught that the sentence She said I love you being converted from direct speech to reported speech form sounds like She said she loveD me The verb in the second sentence stands in Past Simple instead of Present Simple loveD The teachers emphasised the relevance of this rule...

Direct speech mean is what is said by speeker as same as described to other that is direct speech i e Karim said I eat rice where describer told as speeker siad Indirect speech mean is what is said by speeker describer said it from his modification i e Karim said he ate rice where tense is also...

Here is another sentence that I can t understand why present tense is used The doctor suggested that I decrease the amount of medication Why decrease is used here According to your explanation I think decreased should be used Could you please help me with this one Actually you re right it should...

I would say that the last one is He said that he had seen her before he had GONE there Nope you mustn t change the verb in indirect speech You only change the tense and if it doesn t fit anymore also the adverbials of place time etc Peter on the 22nd in London I came here yesterday Jeff on the...

Thank you for helping me Tense is not so important in my mother tongue so it s hard for me to understand the concept I have been studying to build up my vocabulary and I found a couple of indirect speech sentences in my text book That one was one of them Here is another sentence that I can t...

We told Sharon that her comments didn t really relate to the key issues at hand is correct I think the direct speech sentence is in simple present Your comments don t relate to the key issues When the introduction part of a sentence in indirect speech is in a past tense form here We told the...

Could you tell me which tense is correct in indirect speech Also could you please explain the reason We told Sharon that her comments don t really relate to the key issues at hand We told Sharon that her comments didn t really relate to the key issues at hand Thank you