Seven Rules for CORRECT ENGLISH

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Rule 7 CORRECT ENGLISH

Rule-1

Remove the Quotation Mark and comma

Omit THAT when:

•  Question

• Exclamations

• Imperative

He said,  “I am not well”.

He said  that he was not well.

Rule-2

If reporting verbs in the past Tense, the verb in the Reported speech is changed into the corresponding past Tense.

I said,”I drink the milk daily”

I said that I drank milk daily.

•  Shall change into Should or Would

•  Will into Would

•  Can into Could

•  May into Might

I said ,”I shall go there”

I said that I should go there.

Rule-3

If reporting verbs in the present or future Tense, the verb in the Reported speech is remain same.

I say ”Hamid is right”

I say that Hamid is right.

He will say, “They have not seen the place”

He will say that they have not seen the place”

Rule-4

If reported speech states UNIVERSILLY TRUTH, PERMENETLY TRUE, the verb in the Reported speech is remain same.

He said, ”Honesty is the best policy”

He said that honesty is the best policy.

I said, “The moon moves around the world”

I said that the moon moves around the world.

Rule-5

Pronoun are changed as follows:

Pronoun of the 1st Person in the reported speech is changed into a pronoun of the same person, gender, number.

Amin said, ”I am happy”

Amin said that he was happy.

You said,” I can not run”

You said that you could not run.

He said to me, ”You are lazy”

He said to me that I was lazy.

Rule-6

When Reporting verb in the Past Tense.

Thus we change:

This into That

Tomorrow into the next day 

These into Those

yesterday into the day before

Here into There 

last night into the night before

Come into Go 

tonight into that night

Hence into Thence henceforth into thenceforth

Ago into before

Now into then

Today into that day

Rule-7

The question is introduced by some verb like ‘ask’, ’demand’, ‘inquire’ instead of tell or say.

The conjunction that is not use at all when:

who, which, where, when, whom, whose, what, how

He said to me, “where are you going”

He asked me where I was going.