Hi, We live in a period of time. An anachronism is not a period of time, but rather some quality or characteristic of that period which is fundamentally out of sync with the rest of it. So I don't think "We are living in an

Hey, I just have some preliminary questions. Can one say: "Do you really want to live in this obscure anachronism of the second amendment stating that it’s a fundamental individual right to own a gun? We think that we should shatter

2. Transform the following into indirect speech. Nimmi: Sunethra is getting a better salary than you. Why is that? Mrs. Perera: it may be that she is a better typist than I Nimmi: well, I think you type as well as she does or even better. Mrs.

Sally wandered along the path thinking aloud; "If I continue this diet, I should lose ten kilos by the end of this year." Suddenly Sally heard, "Watch out!". "Oh!I'm terribly sorry," he apologized. "I was so

Hi, I am supposed to change the text above to direct speech. The following is what i have done.I can't use "said" for the reporting verb. Peter introduced me to Jack who said (?) , "I am pleased to meet you." I

Peter introduced me to Jack who said he was pleased to meet me. I replied that it was my pleasure, and that I hoped Jack was enjoying his stay in Seattle. He said he thought Seattle was a beautiful city, but that it rained too much. He said that

I found a sentence below in a liner note of a jazz CD: Not only that he plays Monk’s changes so perfect, but he also gives that personal touch to it. I am not sure what part of speech is not only. Is it an adverb, or a conjunction, or a

That doesn't mean you have to post 18 times. You shuda combined them into a single post. Since we're preaching up proper English here, please, don't post "kind-of-chat" language here. I don't belong to the set

You don't have thought that, knew that, found that, believed that, or anything like that. And you're not reporting speech with things like said that, declared that, claimed that , and so on. Oh yeh! Thought, found, believed, etc...If you

should it be I wanted to let you know how much I missed you. No. It can be I want with how much I missed . This situation is completely different. You have want to in the main clause here. You don't have thought that, knew that, found that,