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Has anyone noticed that proper use of indirect speech is disappearing?
For example, peoplel no longer say "I said I was hungry". Instead they say "I said I am hungry". Totally wrong, but likely to take over and wipe out the correct version. Has anyone else noticed? And what about the correct use of comprise? Just about everyone seems to use it wrongly, and it gets past many editors.
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- David HLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
No, I have not noticed. It must be some idiom from your locality, though I can understand people saying "I said "I am hungry.""
- Anonymous1 decade ago
You can say, "I am hungry," because you can say "I am tired." It doesn't mean that you are saying that you have actually become hungry or tired. It is just a present tense description. If you said it like you do, then you would be speaking in past tense.