In Indirect speech^x, Verbs^x

If we use passive voice we don t have to change it in reported speech Am I right JTT That s right Sounds your books are telling merely that some native speakers don t do always the tense backshift in direct to indirect speech conversion But I don t take it as that those books are saying ESL...

CGEL Conversion to indirect reported speech not a matter of grammatical rule There is a second respect in which we must beware of being misled by the traditonal account associating backshift with indirect reported speech Converting into indirect reprted speech however is not a matter of applying...

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 prescriptive rules...

subject verb inversion in indirect speech 1 I don t know what is the right answer 2 I don t know what the right answer is The sentence 2 would be better But I think the sentence 1 is not completely incorrect if one takes the what as an relative pronoun What I would like to ask is whether the...

I m merely an English learner and I don t know much about English However I think English speakers often use a construction X a period or time span before to mean a sense almost similar to X ago This kind of construction seems to be often used in an indirect speech Direct speech John I came over...

Munchun The past tense of wish is the only one that I know for the politeness past tense other than that wonder Some times English speakers use it in a sense of the present tense An example is Did you wish me to dance with you If you like it I ll do The question you newly raised is the problem of...

There are 8 rules for direct indirect speech Rama said to Mohan I get up at 6 o clock Here Rama said to Mohan REPORTING VERB I get up at 6 o clock REPORTED SPEECH Rule 1 If the reporting verb is in past tense than the tense of the reported speech will change as follows 1 Present Indefinite tense...

Who am I is correct if you are asking a direct question In indirect speech you might say something like I wonder who I am Miriam comes back to edit I forgot you asked why The verb to be doesn t use any auxiliaries in the present simple so in order to make a question you only need to invert the...

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...

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 example...