By Indirect speech

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,...

Yoong Liat, yes, I have and agree with you. In addition to your suggestions, GG added I heard (that) he said that... Is the above acceptable to you?

1. Can you do this exercise on indirect speech?2. A considerable amount of money, food and medicines were sent to help people who suffered from the flood recently.3. Are the study hours on the schedule correct?4. How will you study if the light goes out?5. A: I was very sorry to hear about your...

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....

Should I use "is" or "was"?I thought a spider is/was an insect, but it is in fact an arachnid. Use "was". This is not reported speech! (And the first part is not a universal truth anyway; it's a universal falsehood!) This is one of the most typical patterns...

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 my Dear friend,This is Pavan Kumarwould is used to say about determination like " i would finish this work " and another usage is the that is to express past habitual actions "i would go on foot to school when i was studying 8th standard" like that. and could is used to...

Your friend needs to go back to his or her teacher and ask what this is supposed to be about. It's not simply converting reported speech to direct speech -- a lot of what's in this doesn't come close to resembling speech. A typical reported speech exercise has something like the...

ok this is the whole thing! im very confused with changing this from indirect to direct speech! im not being lazy in trying to help my friend i just want to get it right! it looks like its a report and im not sure of the correct use for direct speech here! t29. Mr. Berdennikov ( Russian...