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16 Jan 2011 — Here/There

How would you make the speaker's location clearer?

 

I am not here in my office. I am working in room 226.

I am not here in my office. I am working in room 226.

 

 

 

Click the option(s) that improve(s) the sentence.

 

1.

I am not there in my office.  I am working here in room 226.  

 

 

 

2.


I was there in my office.  I am now here in room 226.  

 

 

 

 

3.


Please go to room 226 to find me.

 

 

 

 

  

deictic (noun) – indicating identity, time, or location from the perspective of one or more speakers Deictics are how we change a sentence from one person's perspective to another person's perspective: You can come here tonight.  → He said that I could go there that night.   (I/you, come/go, here/there, this/ that, today/ yesterday/ tonight)

deictic specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of one or more of the participants in an act of speech or writing, in the context of either an external situation or the surrounding discourse, as we, you, here, there, now, then, this, that, the former, or the latter.  [Greek deiktikos, from deiktos, able to show directly, from deiknunai, to show; see deik- in Indo-European roots.]

 

 

 Solution - lightbulb    Tense: General Truth  |  At the Moment  
               Reported speech:  Adusting Deictic Words


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