In Modals^x, Direct speech^x

1. Direct Speech: I said: “She could read the paper everyday”. Reported Speech: I said that she could read the paper everyday. 2. Direct Speech: I said: “She should read the paper everyday”. X Reported Speech: I said that she should have read the paper everyday. X Reported Speech: I said that...

Hello, everyone in EnglishForums. Here I am again with some doubts, now related to reported speech but when in direct speech were used modal verbs and passive voice. Could you help me, please? Tell me if the followings reported speeches are correctly stated by me: Direct Speech: I said: “She...

(1.) She didn't let him go. (2.) She wouldn't let him go. A: Mom, can I go to the playground? Mom: No, you haven't done your homework or cleaned your room. ======== A report of this encounter would include 'would' because as Jim said, it involves/involved a measure of emotiveness/modality....

JTT: I'm back. As Jim mentioned in my absence, either would be okay. But what he didn't mention is that there are reasons we choose one or the other. Yoshi, the first thing you're going to have to re-learn is that the old "rule" you were taught was wrong, wrong, wrong. There are many old...

But...Mr. Micawber and JTT, why are you two keeping talking about 'future'? Obviously, renewing the lease is happening in the future. And we're just stating the possiblity. JTT: That's the whole point, Jeff. People get themselves confused by thinking that are acting as past tense or are...

Mr M: You are choosing one interpretation; I have chosen two. JTT: That's my point, Mr M. You have given an interpretation that, I'm afraid to say, just doesn't square with reality. Mr M: A little while ago, he went to the lease renewal office to renew his lease. The clerk told him then that he...

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...

Although I'm unable to answer the question, I think it can define it more precisely. Is about with the help of which modal verbs you can tell what another person said. They have it in German and that is, I think, what the question means - whether there is such a construction in English. For...