1. The school's principal said that the school must follow certain principles in order to be at its best.
2. The groom wanted to have their wedding on an isle, while the bride didn't really care where it took place, she simply wanted to walk down the aisle and get married.
3. In class today, we're going to gave a lesson on how to lessen our expenses.
4. The idle man simply sat there lazily as he stared at a poster of his idol, Michael Jackson.
5. She was so vain, she wanted to look perfect, but a huge vein in the middle of her forehead was getting in the way.
The lines that describe the decline and fall of the city are the following:
- These wall-stones are wondrous — calamities crumpled them, these city-sites crashed, the work of giants corrupted.
- The roofs have rushed to earth, towers in ruins.
- The halls of the city once were bright: there were many bath-houses, a lofty treasury of peaked roofs, many troop-roads, many mead-halls filled with human-joys until that terrible chance changed all that.
- Days of misfortune arrived—blows fell broadly—
death seized all those sword-stout men—their idol-fanes were laid waste —the city-steads perished.
- This place has sunk into ruin, been broken into heaps,
Answer: Reporting statements is relatively easy. The most common verb used to report statements is tell.
As a general rule, the changes in the tense of the reported speech depend upon the tense of the reporting verb in the direct speech. Thus when the reporting verb is in the past tense, the tense of the reported verb also changes to past tense.
Example
He said, ‘I want to go.’
He said that he wanted to go.
Explanation:
36/24 = 1.5 gallons of water per hour
36 represents the gallons of water the dairy cow drank in a day
24 represents the amount of hours in that day
