Please i need helping with a 3 minutes speech about The Mary Celeste history..if someone knows the story please write me a summary of it in order to memorize it...thanks a lot

Can I use Past Perfect in the subordinate clause in the following sentence: "Nick noticed that Mr Brown had sent the document before we had arrived ." It's clear that we should use the sequence of tenses here but using Past Perfect

As your grammar book says, these verbs can be used in simple present. "Bill told me you were (or "are", because it's still presumably true before the move) moving to Sydney" is also possible in the fist example.By the way

Hi, You wrote: I learn from a grammar book that a small set of verbs of communication such as "tell", "say" and "hear" can be used in simple present tense even though the act of telling, saying or hearing happened in

Hi there: I learn from a grammar book that a small set of verbs of communication such as "tell", "say" and "hear" can be used in simple present tense even though the act of telling, saying or hearing happened in the

Hi, Let us say that this is spoken by Joe. Joe: All four people got A's on their math tests yesterday. After-the-utterance reporting: 1.Joe says that all four people got A's on their math tests yesterday. 2. Joe says, "All four people

GENRES There are two categories within the world of texts: fiction (invented) and non-fiction (non-invented). The down-categories - e.g. epic, lyric poetry and drama - are called genres. The concept "genre" descends from the Greek word

Well, you know there are a number of terms for virtually everything relating to do with language.  The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language calls it 'indirect reported speech'.  I think the 'reported' part of the name is

Hi Richard This is indirect reported speech I thought it should be indirect speech or reported speech. Is it correct to write 'indirect reported speech'? Many thanks.

Put sentences in Indirect speech. My father tole me: "As a boy I was very good in school" The Typist wanted to know: Shall I write the lette myself?"