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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

reported speech

He wondered if we had bought a car .(did)
He asked , "did you buy a car?"
He said , "did you buy a car ?"
He said to us , "did you buy a car ?"
Which one is correct ?
Should we always use the verb 'say' in direct speech ?
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Anonymous Which one is correct ? None. You must capitalize 'did', and you must not leave a space before a comma, period, semicolon, colon, period, exclamation mark or question mark.

  • Anonymous Which one is correct ?
  • None.
  • You must capitalize 'did', and you must not leave a space before a comma, period, semicolon, colon, period, exclamation mark or question mark.
  • If you do these things, they will all be correct sentences.
  • Anonymous Should we always use the verb 'say' in direct speech ?
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AnonymousWhich one is correct ?
None. You must capitalize 'did', and you must not leave a space before a comma, period, semicolon, colon, period, exclamation mark or question mark. If you do these things, they will all be correct sentences.
AnonymousShould we always use the verb 'say' in direct speech ?
No; you can use a v
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Thanks. I'll take care of these thing.

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