Timeline for Why does this sentence use the word "could" twice?
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| Jun 16, 2015 at 6:28 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | The OP user name is two words woven. Uppercase letters spell "GOOD"; lowercase spells "forever". I answered in same manner, expressing by imitation my admiration for his cleverness, while showing that I had deciphered the pattern. Get it? | |
| Jun 15, 2015 at 10:28 | comment | added | Rucheer M | What is CusUerTnaEme? @BrianHitchcock I can't get it. Please specify. | |
| Jun 15, 2015 at 8:28 | comment | added | FoxyFox | Look how the reported speech works. You have a sentence like this: John says, "I like this film". It is an example of a direct speech. If you want to report it, you make a complex sentence: John says that he likes this film. If you have a question, you report this question as an affirmative sentence, not a question. John asks Tom, "Do you like the movie?" John asks Tom if he likes the movie. | |
| Jun 15, 2015 at 8:28 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | BTW— CusUerTnaEme | |
| Jun 15, 2015 at 8:25 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | No, because not all sentences are reported speech. But reported questions do need to have auxiliary verbs in reversed order from quoted questions. So, as FoxyFox said, He asked "How could they [main verb] ." becomes He asked how they could [main verb].... | |
| Jun 15, 2015 at 8:16 | comment | added | GforOevOerD | So, does swapping place of a word and a pronoun in all sentences change it's form from reported speech to question? Thanks. | |
| Jun 15, 2015 at 8:12 | history | answered | FoxyFox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |