Mastering direct and indirect speech is essential for students aiming for clarity and precision in writing. This guide ...

A question from Nuria in Catalonia: Are there any cases where the inversion rule can be kept while reporting a question? Could we consider the following sentences correct? She asked me who was the ...

This practical guide explains the differences between direct and indirect speech, along with essential rules for conversion. Covering pronoun shifts, tense changes, time expression adjustments, and ...

Reporting other people’s speeches or writings is a technical exercise in which punctuation marks play strategic roles. Whether it is in direct speech or the indirect, punctuation marks such as the ...

However, what is said by somebody is often reported subsequently at a different time and in a different place. This change of time nearly always results in a change of tense. When a past-tense ...

We should all strive to use correct grammar, but commentator William Lawrence says it’s very important when it comes to political speech. For a long time, I have felt that civilization is jeopardized ...