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S.P.I. Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Reported/Indirect Speech
I remember being taught in middle school that to change a given sentence from a direct to an indirect form, we have to replace the part where the comma's supposed to land with 'that'.
For example:
Direct Speech:
She said, "Today's lesson is on presentations."
The indirect form of that statement would be (if what I was taught was indeed right):
She said that yesterdays lesson was on presentations.
However I have come accross another rule book that doesn't really mention the use of that, according to it the sentence above could be written this way:
She said yesterdays lesson was on presentations
What's the correcty way of doing this?
Thanks.
For example:
Direct Speech:
She said, "Today's lesson is on presentations."
The indirect form of that statement would be (if what I was taught was indeed right):
She said that yesterdays lesson was on presentations.
However I have come accross another rule book that doesn't really mention the use of that, according to it the sentence above could be written this way:
She said yesterdays lesson was on presentations
What's the correcty way of doing this?
Thanks.
Top answer
Hi, I remember being taught in middle school that to change a given sentence from a direct to an indirect form, we have to replace the part where the comma's supposed to land with 'that'. " The indirect form of that statement would be (if what I was taught was indeed right): She said that yesterday's lesson was on presentations. She said that the lesson for that day was on presentations.
- Hi, I remember being taught in middle school that to change a given sentence from a direct to an indirect form, we have to replace the part where the comma's supposed to land with 'that'.
- " The indirect form of that statement would be (if what I was taught was indeed right): She said that yesterday's lesson was on presentations.
- She said that the lesson for that day was on presentations.
- She said that that day's lesson was on presentations.
- However I have come accross another rule book that doesn't really mention the use of that, according to it the sentence above could be written this way: She said yesterdays lesson was on presentations What's the correcty way of doing this?
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Hi,
I remember being taught in middle school that to change a given sentence from a direct to an indirect form, we have to replace the part where the comma's supposed to land with 'that'.
For example:
Direct Speech:
She said, "Today's lesson is on presentations."
The indirect form of that statement wo
I remember being taught in middle school that to change a given sentence from a direct to an indirect form, we have to replace the part where the comma's supposed to land with 'that'.
For example:
Direct Speech:
She said, "Today's lesson is on presentations."
The indirect form of that statement wo
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