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I need to compose an essay all in indirect speech I am looking for some good references for style etc I somehow find it very tedious to compose essays in indirect speech Please point me to any reference essays that use indirect speech heavily Few essays that would require heavy usage of indirect...

MrPedantic wrote I think I would take it as a stylistic choice Where the phrase first appears it is direct speech the words are uttered in the voice of the creature the sh of shall suggests forceful utterance In the second example the will links in with the w of word and wedding night the effect...

Hi TomThe the past perfect is frequently not used in reported speech and many grammar books also accept this The past perfect continuous is probably used even more rarely Here are my thoughts First of all Pucca is right about using watching rather than seeing Second we need to know what the...

MrPedantic wrote I think I would take it as a stylistic choice Where the phrase first appears it is direct speech the words are uttered in the voice of the creature the sh of shall suggests forceful utterance In the second example the will links in with the w of word and wedding night the effect...

I think I would take it as a stylistic choice Where the phrase first appears it is direct speech the words are uttered in the voice of the creature the sh of shall suggests forceful utterance In the second example the will links in with the w of word and wedding night the effect is of troubled...

Yogician wrote What I was reading a novel I came across a sentence which raised doubt that wheter it is talking about the Past Tense or Future Tense The sentence is When he was grown up he would go and see it As per the novel a child was thinking about an item which he would like to see when he...

Rotter wrote 1 She asked me will you go to the gym today This is direct speech 2 She asked me whether I would go to the gym today This is indirect speech I just want to know whether my indirect sentence is fine You might convert to the indirect speech in some other way As a matter of fact I am...

Hi I need to change the following directive voice sentence to indirective We normally just use the terms direct indirect speech for this not the term voice I m leaving for Paris tomorrow Helen told her boyfriend so I change it to Helen told her boyfriend that she was leaving for Paris the next...

Hi My doubt is about Reported Speech Please help me As an aside the normal word to use here would be question rather than doubt If you have a doubt you have an idea opinion but you are not sure if it is correct You haven t indicated such a doubt here For example let s suppose I have this sentence...

Hi India has far fewer tigers living in the wild than had been thought initial results from a major new study suggest The Wildlife Institute of India census showed tiger numbers falling in some states by two thirds in five years A final report is due out in December India s last major survey in...