By Direct questions, Affirmative sentences

Hi pjyrdoHere are my comments:1. The word order is not the most natural. The time aspect is more typical at the end: "I don't know what I should do for three hours."2. 'In three hours' is frequently used to refer to a point in time that is three hours from now. (e.g....

Hi I've just talked by the internet to someone about indirect and direct questions. I wrote that: "Where is Tom?" is a direct question and "Could you tell me where Tom is?" is an indirect question, and he didn't agree. He wrote that this is not an indirect...

Thank you very much for your aswer, Tanit, expecially for the first list you provide. I had not included these cases:In formal/emphatic conditional sentences: "Should you need further information, please call ..."When expressing wishes starting with may: "May you find what...

"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...