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<"I received a letter a year ago from a woman who (said/wrote/claimed that she) had been saved by the people of Le Chambon when she was a young girl."> It's reported/indirect speech/writing with "said", or another reporting verb, and a pronoun omitted. Don't only focus on the isolated...

See F. R. Palmer: The English Verb. To backshift is to change from a tense in present POV to a corresponding tense in past POV. Used, among other things, to create indirect speech. The backshifted form usually retains the time-meaning of the original unbackshifted form. The...

subject-verb inversion in indirect speech (1) I don't know what is the right answer. (2) I don't know what the right answer is. The sentence #2 would be better. But I think the sentence #1 is not completely incorrect if one takes the 'what' as an relative pronoun. What I would like to ask is...