There are a few verbs like suggest or insist that require the subjunctive when they are used in reported speech. This is very difficult to get right, so if you want to impress your friends, learn it!

Gareth Rees answers a question from Nuria in Catalonia: and explains the inversion rule: Ask about English: 20 July 2010 ...

Drawing on Arabic data sets, this study examines reported speech in naturally occurring conversations. Building on earlier work in discourse analysis, the study demonstrates how reported speech is a ...