By Indirect speech, Commas

Hi, please can u help me out in converting all the following direct speech as reported speech using the word or words given?1. someone cleaned the windown yesterday; perhaps it was Janet.( it might have)my answer for the first question goes like this..(please correct me if i'm wrong)1. It...

Hey everyone - any help with the following would be most appreciated (1) My dad always used to say, "Work hard". Am I correct in capitalising "work" in this instance; indeed, have I used the comma correctly after say? I know that in direct speech that this would be ok,...

Hello Dawnstorm,The terminology is not happy, admittedly; "middle voice" and "ergative" belong to other linguistic contexts, as has been mentioned; but I think it can be disentangled. It may be the case that "ergative" usage was once much more common in English....

Hi, What do you mean, "I lost"? I hit the ball in first! What do you mean I lost? (Quoted from a dictionary) Why use quotation marks? It's indirect speech, isn't it? True, in that scenario. But in this one, it's direct speech. A: I had a winning position on the chess board, but I...

Hi, My English teacher has reached out of the bowels of hell and given me and a friend a project: we have to make a video project on commas in direct address.I have searched through the internet and have found little to help give a good explanation. If someone could tell me the rules for this......

ScienceNerd wrote: Okay, I'm stuck on my English homework. On my first problem it says I'm really looking forward to my Algebra class with Miss Fink. Whats wrong with that? I see nothing wrong. As you can see im not very good in English. I also have a few more questions. Whats wrong with...