[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to learn how to express myself clearly in Italian, can you help me translate the sentence 'Tom was more direct' into Italian?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'Tom was more direct' in Italian is 'Tom era pi\u00f9 diretto.' This sentence is in the past tense, indicating that Tom's behavior was more direct at a specific point in the past."}]