Saying or repeating exactly what someone has said is called Direct Speech (which is sometimes also called Quoted Speech). What a person says appears within quotation marks and is exactly what that person says: “Live long and prosper,” said Spock. In this example above, we are repeating exactly the words […]

We can ask a direct question: What time is it? Or, if we want to be more formal or polite, we can ask an indirect question: Do you know what time it is? We make an indirect question by using a phrase and then a statement. Note that even though […]

Sometimes we can have a sentence‏‎ with 2 objects‏‎. We call these the direct objects and indirect objects. In sentences with 2 objects, the subject gives the direct object to the indirect object: {subject} + {verb} + {indirect object} + {direct object} I + bought + my sister + a […]

Declarative Sentences are sentences which convey information; in other words, they make a statement. They do not ask a question or give a command. Declarative sentences are perhaps the most common forms of sentences. Other forms are interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences. My name is Bond. You are standing on […]

Although they look similar, dashes and hyphens are used very differently. In traditional typography, a hyphen is half the length of a dash although in handwriting and often on computer keyboards they are the same size. Hyphens are used in two ways: to split a word or to join words. […]