Help with a sentence, please.

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ESL forum > Grammar and Linguistics > Help with a sentence, please.

Help with a sentence, please.

rose95

Help with a sentence, please.

Direct: " The sun rises from the east."

Indirect: The teacher informed the students that..........

Thanks in advance

7 Sep 2010

viccxx

In this case the verb in sentence doesn �t change into a past tense because it expresses a universally aceepted truth:

The teacher informed the students that the sun rises in the east.

7 Sep 2010

rose95

Thanks a lot

7 Sep 2010

Lina Ladybird

Dear Rose,

Shouldn �t it be "the sun rises in the east"?

Have a nice day - Silke

7 Sep 2010