The strategy that will help you revise your choice of words to achieve your purpose is to think of what message you want to give such as in an introduction to a topic whereby you want to cover the main points to be expounded on in the main paper or essay or chapter of a book you may be writing to set the stage for their full explanation.
Write about what you ate for dinner !! Or maybe write about what you did today! :)
If the verb in the independent clause is in the present tense, the tense that the verb in the indirect quotation should be is <span>remain in its original tense.
</span>You don't have to shift tenses because it is present in the independent one.
For example:
He says: "I need to wash my hair."
He says that he needs to wash his hair.
You wouldn't say - he says that he needed to wash his hair.
B. Carl wished it were last year at the this time so he could invite someone else to homecoming and have a good time.
Hello there,
<span>Anglo-Saxon society is considered patriarchal because
A. men were the leaders and decision-makers. </span>
