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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...

Kooyeen wrote:Thanks! Different sentences, same structures, same comments of yours, new comments of mine: 1. When I asked Amanda, she told me that she had been cheating on her boyfriend. This sounds closer in time to went (now asked) to me <-- Now, I'd say she was still cheating 2. When I...

Hello everybody, I'm working on the rules of the reported speech and the ones on the future in the past. A practical English Grammar wrote: reported speech: He said, ‘Ann will be in Paris on Monday.’ >>> He said that Ann would be in Paris on Monday. ...

Yes, everything is correct I'm absolutely agree with Goldmund. The main point, which one should remember when converting sentences from Direct into Indirect speech is to be very careful with tenses. Converting you make a step back, I mean turn Past Simple into Past Perfect.

We use "think" in the past simple or past perfect tense to indicate a belief that was previously held but that has been shown to be incorrect. For example: I didn't think she was going. (past simple) I had thought that she wasn't going. (past perfect) The exception is in converting from direct...

At school we were taught that the sentence She said "I love you" , being converted from direct speech to reported speech form, sounds like She said she loveD me . The verb in the second sentence stands in Past Simple instead of Present Simple: loveD . The teachers emphasised the relevance of...