By Direct speech, Nouns

Hi,As the sentence is about a single person(You need a holiday; you haven't had one for such a long time)but as u said in the second part of the answer(because they hadn't had one for such a long time)i feel it should be "because he hadn't had one for such a long time"We...

Hello, friends.Please, which is the correct way and why? Doubt #1"color of the car" x "car color" x "car's color""leg of the cat" x "cat leg" x "cat's leg""pizza of yesterday" x "yesterday pizza" x "yesterday's pizza"I've heard that Genitive Case is used only with nouns which are "living...

Hi, I wonder whether my writing is correct or not.There seem to be so many questions..The followings are questions about English grammar.please answer me.. 1 Which is correct or better ?(1) See you tomorrow, same time, same place. This is more common(2) See you tomorrow at the same time and the...

Hi ..I wonder whether my writing is correct or not.There seem to be so many questions..The followings are questions about English grammar.please answer me.. 1 Which is correct or better ?(1) See you tomorrow same time same place.(2) See you tomorrow at the same time and the same place. 2 Which...

Hi, How about this. I know some people would affectionally call his loved ones 'honey'. Would 'sugar' be a vocative noun that wouldn't normally be capitalized? What time is it, honey? Yes, you're right, such names of endearment are often, probably usually, not capitalized. However,...

<"I received a letter a year ago from a woman who (said/wrote/claimed that she) had been saved by the people of Le Chambon when she was a young girl."> It's reported/indirect speech/writing with "said", or another reporting verb, and a pronoun omitted. Don't only focus on the isolated...

Clive wrote: Hi, I'd go farther, and say that capitalizing after a colon is incorrect, except in special cases like a proper noun or a colon that introduces direct speech. Best wishes, Clive You wrote "I'd go farther..." Shouldn't it be 'further'?

Hi, I'd go farther, and say that capitalizing after a colon is incorrect, except in special cases like a proper noun or a colon that introduces direct speech. Best wishes, Clive

See F. R. Palmer: The English Verb. To backshift is to change from a tense in present POV to a corresponding tense in past POV. Used, among other things, to create indirect speech. The backshifted form usually retains the time-meaning of the original unbackshifted form. The...

Pieanne wrote: Mister Micawber wrote:Did Mary say is the interrogative inversion, Pieanne-- no question.Yes, but I was trying to compare this kind of inversion (in reported speech) with constructions like "little did she know..." etc... In the former, there's no problem to put the subject after...