Icadia, I understood the focus of your question; therefore, I mentioned that 'if the indirect speech itself contains a subordinate clause (introduced by until... in your case), then the verb of that subordinate clause may be in the present

Thanks!! I appreciate your replies. Yes. you are right. I think the legislation about driving is still effective, so the tenses don't need to be changed, which means his comment is still relevant. I posted a contradictory question. If his

Greetings, Icadia, Direct speech: It's against the law in our state for her to drive until she has been seizure-free for six months. Indirect speech: 1. The provisions of the legislation have probably not changed by the time of reporting

A weeks ago. John made a comment below. John's comment: "it's against the law in our state for her to drive until she has been seizure-free for six months." Now. I am reporting what he said, Let's consider his comment

I'd say Yes, Yes, Yes, and Not necessarily.

When 'might' is not used as the past of 'may' in reported speech and similar tense regressions, there is no difference. In particular, there is no difference in probability.

I was looking through one of my grammar-test books and encountered such a sentence: Celia has just phoned to ask if YOU HAVE FINISHED your part of the project yet. Shouldn't it be HAD YOU FINISHED instead of the above? It is reported speech,

In reported speech, we have verbs like "say, said, thihk, thought, report, reported, believe, believed, etc." And many times English language learners get confused when to use the present version and when the past. What makes

Sally wandered along the path thinking aloud; "If I continue this diet, I should lose ten kilos by the end of this year." Suddenly Sally heard, "Watch out!". "Oh!I'm terribly sorry," he apologized. "I was so

These are a colloquial shortened version of the present perfect tense, "How have you been?" "What have you been doing?" The shortened version is ungrammatical, but common in casual speech.