By Indirect speech, Present tenses

Let us recast the sentence in direct speech, that is, you are speaking to Mark, "When you arrive (simple present tense is most suitable here - I wonder you can use any other tense), we shall/will go out for dinner."When you turn that into an indirect speech, the sentence will become,...

Sorry for starting it again, but I am still not quite sure in this case. I was taught that when talking about universal truths or general knowledge, the present tense should be used in indirect speech. By the way, I suppose you are just making up an example quickly. I think you know the sun IS...

Hi Viceidol,For reported / indirect speech, we convert the present tense to the past tense as shown below:will, wouldcan, couldmust, had toshall, shouldmay, might Therefore, #2 is correct.

The correct version is I said I didn't want to live with her. There should be the consequence of tenses and tha past tense and the present tense in one sentence don't go together.

With all the wanderings of this thread, I am not sure of the question. Regarding these sentences: "i wish i could tell you what this is" (this present unidentifiable object) "i wish i could tell you what this was" (the same object) "i wish i could tell you how i feel" ...

CalifJim wrote: This is not a mandatory rule. It's something which is often done (thus, to me, optional), per Swan. Which part is not mandatory? I may have misunderstood, but I'm assuming the rule you are referring to is: will cannot be used in a when clause where when is an...

So, as long as there is something discovered in the past and refered to a permanent truth, it still can be used with simple present tense. This reminds me of another sentence I found in my textbook regarding "indirect speech". Please see the following sentence. He said he will come on the...

While doing some reported/indirect speech stuff (again!) lots of questions has come to my mind. Here are some of them. 1/ 'I never eat meat', (Bill said/explained) -> turns into -> Bill said/explained (that) he never ate meat. - This is the normal way in which most of us would...

In one of my questions of converting direct to indirect speech According to St. Patrick all the snakes were driven out of Ireland, and they swam to England. The answer was suggested as St Patrick said, "All the snakes were driven out of Ireland, and they swam to England." I have learnt that...

"is" is the 3rd person singular present tense of "to be" "was" is 3rd person simple past of "to be" Reading your sentences, I would put this interpretation on them: I thought he is late. I think this need some speech marks (") Perhaps you are telling someone about something that happened in...