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Hi, Can someone please help me. I'm trying to figure out the correct way of typing this: She asked us: what do we think? She asked us, "What do we think?" I want to use the quotes but keep telling myself, it's not really a quote since it doesn't read, "What do you think?" If you want to...

Hi, What do you mean, "I lost"? I hit the ball in first! What do you mean I lost? (Quoted from a dictionary) Why use quotation marks? It's indirect speech, isn't it? True, in that scenario. But in this one, it's direct speech. A: I had a winning position on the chess board, but I...

Clive wrote:1. What do you mean, "I lost"? I hit the ball in first! What do you mean I lost? (Quoted from a dictionary) Why use quotation marks? It's indirect speech, isn't it?

ScienceNerd wrote: Okay, I'm stuck on my English homework. On my first problem it says I'm really looking forward to my Algebra class with Miss Fink. Whats wrong with that? I see nothing wrong. As you can see im not very good in English. I also have a few more questions. Whats wrong with...

To change something to indirect speech you need to find a way to take the quotation marks out of the original. That does not always mean using the exact same words as the original. (that is why it is know as "indirect" speech!) e.g. The Vicar said, "let us pray". = He invited us to pray. The...