What Is Direct and Indirect Speech with 500 Examples?

Five hundred examples? Youu2019re asking a lot. Youu2019re assuming that I donu2019t have anything else to do with my life.

But Iu2019m only up to chapter 18 in my novel, and thereu2019s a lot more writing to do. OK. Hereu2019s two sentences:u201cItu2019s time Paul and I were going,u201d he said.

He said it was time that Paul and he were going.The first is in direct speech, because it presents the words that someone - whoever u2018heu2019 is - said: it puts the words right in front of you, just as he said them. The second is in indirect speech, because it reports the meaning of what this person said.

Expect to see quotation marks in a sentence written as direct speech, and none in a sentence written as indirect speech. Notice that, in the direct speech version, the speech tag, at the end, is in the simple past, but the main verb in the u2018spokenu2019 part of the sentence - u2018s, short for u201cisu201d, is in the simple present. However, when it gets converted into indirect speech, the main verb in the u2018spokenu2019 part of the sentence - u201cwasu201d, is in the simple past, the same as the speech tag, which is now at the beginning of the sentence.

(The speech tag could also be written u201cHe said thatu201d).Now, do a web search and get a list of 499 names. Put the two sentences above into a word processor file, and use the mail-merge facility to make 499 copies, with the word u201cPaulu201d substituted by each of the other 499 names.

Thatu2019ll give you the 500 examples you wanted

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Who did you meet today?

This was technically yesterday, but a crossdresser male dominatrix. On the Amtrak.

Naturally.We were taking the train from Chicago to Detroit after a family vacation in Chicago. Little bro lives in Chicago, but because he's a professional hockey referee, he's not normally in Chicago during the summer.

Normally when we go to Chicago it's during the winter and cold as balls. But he's there this summer so we decided to visit when the weather wasn't totally shitty this time, which was primo. We actually felt like leaving the house sometimes.

Anyway, we take the train back. We get in it and collapse. Vacation is exhausting.

Mom and Dad are sitting together and I'm solo until this dude sits next to me.Whatever. Then he opens up his laptop and is looking up strap ons and dildos on the giant 17-inch screen.

I'm like, u201cWell,u201d and immediately find this more interesting than my podcast. Like, look, I try not to be nosy. But if you open a GIANT LAPTOP and start browsing the dildo section, I mean, come on.

Dad passes me the whiskey bottle because there's obviously no way you ride Amtrak for 6 hours sober. That's just dumb. Strap-on-dude looks at me and laughs, shaking his water bottle.

u201cVodka,u201d he says with a shrug. I laugh and we drink and I watch him looking up catsuits. He's got painted nails and a woman's purse.

Nice.So of course we end up talking. There's no way I'm not going to talk to this dude.

Basically, people pay him $500 an hour in cash to tie them up and leave them in a room alone for like 5 hours. He does this while dressed like a woman and he shows me some pictures of himself in drag. Damn.

The guy looks more like a woman than I do. No sex, he says, so its legal. I tell ya, I'm in the wrong business.

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How would the Romans react if you went back in time and showed them a map of the world?

Unless it had the locations of gold depoits / gem fields in areas that are not highly valued by their current inhabitants, probably not a lot. The Romans were at heart, pragmatists.

By that I mean they were interested in things they could use. If the map didn't give them more information than they already had and could use, then it would not have much of an impact. Although I'd wager the modern break up of Europe would have them more than a little concerned.

But only because of the things it implies about the future of their empire republic.From memory Nero had plans to conquer the areas around the Black sea. nSo there was no shortage of places to conquor that they already knew about.

nThe limit was on on what they could finance within the existing borders (new wars) and what they could hold hold with the available man power.Depending on the time when your map shows up, there were almost constant rebelions, threats to the power of the senate / emporer, threatened invasions and invasions that had to be dealt with. Anything more than an unopposed mining expidition to an area beyond their current knowledge, was unlikely to attract enough military interest to pull it off.

Anything long term would have required long term, long distance logistical support when the same amount of man power could have been put to use much closer to home with far less logistical overhead.There is one possible change that I just thought of. It *may* have helped build a business case for digging a canal to join the Mediteranian sea with the Arabian sea.

Having a map of the existing Suez Canal would have been a big help. Seeing the size of the potential markets that could have been opened and controled via the canal would have also helped. Operating a toll gate on that canal would have been a *huge* money maker for the Romans

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What language is similar to C but easier to learn?

A language that is similar to C in terms of power and speed is Eiffel. In fact, many of the advanced features in Eiffel were adopted by C, like multiple inheritance and generics (templates). But Eiffel did these in a neat and elegant fashion u2013 C was tethered to C (with Cu2019s own problems).

For application programming (letu2019s say programming above OS level), C is the wrong approach. C at least attempted to make C better by adding types and some correctness checking. But still does not go far enough.

And then there is security u2013 ah, yes security. Eiffel is a very sophisticated language. C is just a big language.

While some of the things in Eiffel are difficult to learn, it is because there is an essential complexity to them u2013 like multiple inheritance and generics. You need to understand the principles behind these. You need to understand the principles behind Design by Contract.

It helps to understand the software development process and how Eiffel has this built in.A similarity of Eiffel to C is speed u2013 it is a compiled language.Another recommendation is Smalltalk u2013 another very sophisticated, yet simple language.

Again the language mostly does not get in the way u2013 it is the programming principles behind it that are essentially hard to learn.C however, tries to crack nuts with a sledgehammer. It is not subtle and introduces accidental complexity u2013 that is complexity that is part of the solution, not intrinsically part of the problem.

Here are some resources:Touch of Classhttp://se.ethz.ch/meyer/down/touch/TOUCH.

pdfTouch of Class MOOCIntroduction to Programming, the ETH cloud courseTouch of Class Archives - Bertrand Meyer's technology blogSqueakSqueak from the very start - YouTubePharoPharo - Welcome to Pharo!

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What's the difference between string s new string("A") and string s "A"?

String s new String(u201cAu201d); explicitly creates a new and referentially distinct instance of a String object.

String s u201cAu201d; will reuse an instance from the string constant pool if one is available.u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014String s1 "quora";String s2 "quora";System. out.

println(s1 s2); // trues2 new String("quora");System.out.println(s1 s2); // falseSystem.

out.println(s1.equals(s2)); // trueu2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014u2014-In simpler words, when String s1 u201cquorau201d; is executed, a new memory box is created with value as u201cquorau201d and name as u201cs1u201d.

Now when String s2 u201cquorau201d; takes place, then the variable u201cs2u201d points to the memory reference of s1 whose value is u201cquorau201d. That is, if the value is same (as in this case, value is u201cquorau201d) then JVM does not create a new memory reference. Instead it points to the already made reference and thus memory management is practiced.

But now if you were to create String s3 u201cabcdu201d; Now the JVM will check the if any memory box is present in the String pool where u201cabcdu201d value is already present. If yes, it will point variable u2018s3u2019 to this box otherwise it will create a new one.On the other hand, String s4 new String(u201cquorau201d); will explicitly create a new memory reference in the memory.

*Remember, the u201cnewu201d keyword will always create something new in the heap memory.

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What exactly do you do in Hell?

The focus of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has never been on Hell.

It has been on helping people to reunite with God in the Third or Celestial Kingdom of Heaven. As such we dont really know much about Hell past what is said in the scriptures. Hell is not one unified concept in the scriptures.

Hell is often called Outer Darkness and it is used for remoteness from Gods presence. The contexts in the New Testament in which this phrase are used are God casting someone who didnt do as they were supposed to have done in the parables of Jesus. These people are described as weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth.

Sheol is a Hebrew word sometimes translated as Hell which means a hole or pit, specifically the grave. We know that in the spirit world immediately after death and before the resurrection the righteous teach the wicked the principals they should have learned in this life. And spirits wait for people to do Temple Ordinances in their names.

The state of waiting could be termed a kind of Hell. For Hell proper, the word Gehenna was used by the Hebrew Prophets. This would be where people are punished for unrepented sins and plagued with guilt.

Some people like Alma in the Book of Mormon, and some people who have had near-death experiences, Hell is opened to them to scare them straight. So, these would be the people to read about or to ask. But, it would seem that all the legitimate accounts are merely torture of the soul due to guilt and Christ somehow occurring to them as the only way out.

Like I said the focus of the Church isnt Hell, so it is used to scare and rehabilitate those who are able to be saved after knowing that it is real. Or to imprison those who would not be saved.