#Common_Mistakes Use “reply” correctly Wh | English language club

#Common_Mistakes




Use “reply” correctly


What you might be saying:

I emailed him asking when the internet would be working again, but he never replied me.


What you should say:


There are two ways we can fix this.



In the example sentence above (the one about the emails), we just don’t need an object:



What’s an object? Here’s a 1-minute grammar lesson:

Most full English sentences have at least three parts — a subject, verb and an object (SVO).

Harry (subject) met (verb) Sally (object).

This is very, very simple, but also — especially for English — very important.

Most English sentences follow this SVO structure.


I emailed him, but he never replied.



But sometimes, we use “reply” to describe exactly what he said.

So we use our good old friend, “that.”

reply + that + SVO

Then he came to my office, and I asked him again. He replied that he couldn’t respond to my email because the internet wasn’t working.


He replied that he couldn't respond to my email.



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