Verbs When using reported speech‚ most students learn to use "say" and "tell": Examples: John told me he was going to stay late at work. Peter said he wanted to visit his parents that weekend. These forms are perfectly correct for reporting what others have said. However‚ there are a number of other reporting verbs which can more accurately describe what someone has said. These verbs take a variety of structures. The following list gives you reporting verbs in various categories based on sentence
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Reported Speech Table for change in tense of reported speech (Statements) The tense changes into the corresponding past. Direct Indirect/ Reported Simple Present tense Simple Past Tense Present Continuous tense Past Continuous tense Present Perfect tense Past Perfect tense Present Perfect Continuous tense Past Perfect Continuous tense Simple Past tense Past Perfect Past Continuous tense Past Perfect Continuous tense Past Perfect Past Perfect Simple Future (will) would Future continuous
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Thus: i. We have used the conjunction ‘that’ before the Indirect Statement. ii. The pronoun “I” is changed to “HE”. (The Pronoun is changed in Person) iii. The verb “am” is changed to “was”. iv. The adverb “now” is changed to “then”. Rules for changing Direct into Indirect Speech: A. When the reporting or principal verb is in the Past Tense‚ all the Present Tenses in the Direct Speech are changed into Past Tense. a. A simple present tense becomes simple past tense. Example:
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phenomenon is abnormal or normal. One source we use to base conclusions from is statistical data. Statistical data that shows what is abnormal or normal sometimes contradicts what is evolutionary or culturally abnormal. For example‚ I referred to the census bureau statistics and assess the data on the rates of abortion in 1990 and 2007. In order to determine whether patterns of statistically abnormality or normality exist I compared the number of white women ages 15 to 44 who received abortions in 1990 and
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18.09.2012 What is enlightenment according to Kant? For hundreds of years questions such as what is enlightenment and how can we be enlightened were asked‚ and many different answers were given. Some tell that it is all about being educated‚ knowing few languages or being a great mathematician or a writer; others‚ on contrary‚ say that is not about academic education‚ but about education of our souls‚ that brings harmony
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What is philosophy according to Socrates? Philosophy is an academic subject that exercises reason and logic in an attempt to understand reality and answer fundamental questions about knowledge‚ life‚ morality‚ virtue‚ and human nature. The original word for philosophy comes from the ancient Greek word philosopha‚ which means love of wisdom. Although Socrates himself never claimed to have any answers to the questions he raised‚ his views and methods of philosophy became the foundations of what
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Socrates is a man who relies on his manipulative tricks of rhetoric and cunning wisdom to dismantle and disprove his opponents of conversation. “What is the pious‚ and what the impious‚ do you say?” (6) Socrates asks one of these opponents‚ a man named Euthyphro‚ who is at court to prosecute his own father - an action which Euthyphro thinks to be pious. Socrates asks Euthyphro to define piety‚ and as he does so‚ Socrates uses their conversation to mock and twist Euthyphro’s words so they contradict
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Assignment #1 Category Attractiveness Analysis of Maxima Watches Course Title: “Product & Brand Management” Course Code: MGT 532 Submitted To: Anju Sahni Submitted By: Varun Puri Sr. No. :28 (AG 2) Roll No.R1805 A 19 Reg. No. : 10800464 Lovely School of Business Lovely Professional University Introduction Indian watches market was for long dominated by public sector organisations like Hindustan Machine Tools Ltd. (HMT) and Allwyn (also famous for its refrigerators once upon a
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___________________________________________T09 TUTORIAL GROUP NO. OR TIME SCHOOL OF ENGLISH‚ MEDIA STUDIES & ART HISTORY ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Name (in full): Kai-chun Hung Student No.: 43120633 Assignment Topic: Introduction of an R 18+ classification category for video games Word Length: IMPORTANT: THIS STATEMENT MUST BE READ & SIGNED: TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE‚ EXCEPT WHERE OTHERWISE DOCUMENTED‚ THE MATERIAL SUBMITTED HERE FOR ASSESSMENT IS ALL MY OWN ORIGINAL WORK
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TOPIC THE CATEGORIES OF ARISTOTLE COURSE INTRODUCTION TO METAPHYSICS 1 NAME MABKWE NICHOLAS CHUKWUNWEIKE REG. NO 09/UN/SI/A/0826 LECTURER REV. FR. DR. B. ABANUKA C.S.Sp. DATE JANUARY 2011 INTRODUCTION Aristotle (384-322BC) is one of the most influential philosophers of the western tradition and had many philosophical works credited to him. In his treatise on logic collectively known as “Organon”‚ Aristotle gave two preliminary treatises; “The Categories and De Interpretatione
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