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Ellisa: This is a very long passage, and your other post seems to be even longer. The editor at this web site makes it difficult to make corrections to long passages. Also, many teachers do not want to devote a long time working on a single post. If you post only one paragraph at a time, then...

I'm not a native speaker but I am pretty sure the version with the present tense "I though I know" sounds quite odd. You could hear something similar when "I know" is reported as direct speech, or is not really linked to "I thought":There was this girl, you know,...

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.

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...

No. 1 is best- as for the others A is good, but if you were to say this to someone you would normally use the present tense for remember, as it would be a more personal way to impart that single thought. If you were illuding to a broader context, as trying to recount your own past actions, the...

Munchun The past tense of "wish" is the only one that I know for the politeness past tense other than that "wonder". Some times English speakers use it in a sense of the present tense. An example is "Did you wish me to dance with you? If you like it, I'll do" The question you newly raised is...

I don't really understand the question either... Konstantin, you're referring to the Conditional with your German example. Indirect speech in German works differently as the Conjunctive has to be used in formal German, which however, can be replaced by the Conditional (would+infinitive). In...