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According to Radford (Transformational Grammar): Direct speech: "Will I get a degree?" John wondered. Indirect speech: John wondered whether he would get a degree. Semi-indirect speech: John wondered would he get a degree. (Semi-indirect speech is so called because it shares features...

Dear tutors, I bought the novel "Rabbit is Rich." Here are the first lines: Running out of gas, Rabbit Angstrom thinks as he stands behind the summer-dusty windows of the Springer Motors display room watching the traffic go by on the Route 111, traffic somehow thin and scared compared...