By Indirect speech, Present simple

Infinik wrote: Viceidol wrote: direct speech: He said, "John is honest." inrect speech: He said that John was honest. I think both sentences are perfectly OK. The second one means that, John was honest at the time of speaking. So it does not imply whether John is honest now or not, we...

"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...