Timeline for Questions in indirect speech and verb tense change
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| Jan 20, 2013 at 20:10 | comment | added | AlexD | @BarrieEngland both questions and reports were made in speech. | |
| Jan 19, 2013 at 8:03 | comment | added | Barrie England | In part, the answer depends on whether the constructions occur in speech or in writing. My intuition is that the shift to the past tense is more likely to occur in writing than in speech. You might want to raise the question again with your teacher, perhaps referring to the discussion here. | |
| Jan 18, 2013 at 23:33 | comment | added | AlexD | @BarrieEngland, I have 3rd Edition first published 2004. I've read both units about reported speech and I understand that using past tense is safer and present tense is optional. I just need to know whether my specific answers were acceptable or not. | |
| Jan 18, 2013 at 21:48 | comment | added | Barrie England | Do you mean Unit 47, rather than Unit 48? (Perhaps you have a more recent edition.) See also the previous Unit: Reported speech (1). It's generally safer to use the past tense. You will rarely be wrong if you do. | |
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| Jan 18, 2013 at 20:29 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | This is a possible duplicate of Tense change: previous actions on something that's currently true. Both tenses are possible, although the past tense is more common when something reported in the past is/was true both in the past and in the present. | |
| Jan 18, 2013 at 20:05 | answer | added | Barrie England | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 18, 2013 at 19:44 | history | asked | AlexD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |