Kyadere
Member
- Joined
- Dec 15, 2023
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Polish
- Home Country
- Poland
- Current Location
- Poland
When we use a quotation marks we change nothing:
- Tom said "I'll go to the shop tomorrow."
- Kate said "I live here."
When we use "someone said (that)" we often change some words:
- Tom said that he would go to the shop the next day. (I changed "tomorrow" to "the next day". A change to 'on Monday' would be less universal.)
- Kate said that she lived there. (I changed "here" to "there")
These changes are not automatic and depend on the context although changing 'tomorrow, here' to 'the next day, there' is quite universal.
Could you tell me what you think of the following changes. Does any of them not make sense or are they non-universal?
1. here -> there
2. this -> that/the
3. these -> those/the
4. thus -> so
5. ago -> previously, before, earlier
6. now -> then, at the moment, immediately
7. come -> go
8. hence -> thence
9. today -> that day
10. yesterday -> the day before, the previous day
11. tomorrow -> the next day, the following day, the day after
12. tonight -> that night
13. last month -> the month before, the previous month
14. next month -> the month after, the following month, the month week
15. in one hour -> one hour later
16. the day after tomorrow -> in two day's time, two days later
17. the day before yesterday -> two days before
- Tom said "I'll go to the shop tomorrow."
- Kate said "I live here."
When we use "someone said (that)" we often change some words:
- Tom said that he would go to the shop the next day. (I changed "tomorrow" to "the next day". A change to 'on Monday' would be less universal.)
- Kate said that she lived there. (I changed "here" to "there")
These changes are not automatic and depend on the context although changing 'tomorrow, here' to 'the next day, there' is quite universal.
Could you tell me what you think of the following changes. Does any of them not make sense or are they non-universal?
1. here -> there
2. this -> that/the
3. these -> those/the
4. thus -> so
5. ago -> previously, before, earlier
6. now -> then, at the moment, immediately
7. come -> go
8. hence -> thence
9. today -> that day
10. yesterday -> the day before, the previous day
11. tomorrow -> the next day, the following day, the day after
12. tonight -> that night
13. last month -> the month before, the previous month
14. next month -> the month after, the following month, the month week
15. in one hour -> one hour later
16. the day after tomorrow -> in two day's time, two days later
17. the day before yesterday -> two days before