Ridiculous ways of presenting rules.

[Molly]

@Yankee

@Molly

Are you so inclinded each time a friend tells you that it’s going to rain the next day?

Speaking of “report”, would you say that sentence contains anything resembling “reported speech”?
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It might, but what does it matter? Do you think someone has stated that reported speech never occurs in English?

[MrPedantic]

@Molly

And what makes you be so inclined? Are you so inclinded each time a friend tells you that it’s going to rain the next day? Do you need him to show you the weather report?

A prediction (tomorrow’s weather) is different from a reported fact (the examples).

MrP

[Molly]

@MrPedantic

A prediction (tomorrow’s weather) is different from a reported fact (the examples).

MrP

Not if your friend is reporting what, he says, the weather men said. :lol:

[MrPedantic]

It’s simply a reported prediction.

MrP

[Molly]

@MrPedantic

It’s simply a reported prediction.

MrP

And I predicted your reply.