Timeline for "I saw the girl, who is standing outside our house"
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 14, 2020 at 6:05 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Feb 16, 2020 at 0:02 | comment | added | Toothrot | @MrReality, sorry, no. | |
| Feb 15, 2020 at 22:59 | comment | added | HeWhoMustBeNamed | @Toothrot, do you have a source for your claim that the sequence-of-tenses rule doesn't apply to relative clauses, only to object subordinate clauses? I've never heard of this rule but for restrictive relatives it seems to go along with my intuition that bacshifting wouldn't be okay there; but I'm not sure about nonrestrictive relatives -- even in the sentence the OP gave, if the relative clause were nonrestrictive, the interpretation of the "was" as backshifted "is" would seem okay to me. | |
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| Oct 18, 2019 at 3:25 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 20, 2019 at 2:03 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| May 21, 2019 at 1:22 | comment | added | Toothrot | @PeterShor, 'I saw it was he' would also be subject to the sequence of tenses, but it is essential that the subordinate clause is the object of the main verb. The rule doesn't apply to relative clauses. | |
| May 21, 2019 at 0:08 | comment | added | Peter Shor | I guess the question is whether saw is a verb like said, learned, knew, believed, where backshifting was almost mandatory in earlier dialects of English, or whether it's another kind of verb. I don't really know the answer to that question, and Googling doesn't tell me much. | |
| May 20, 2019 at 22:54 | comment | added | Toothrot | @PeterShor, I think you are confusing this with something like 'I knew it was he'. | |
| May 20, 2019 at 22:46 | history | edited | Mitch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 20, 2019 at 22:44 | comment | added | Mitch | @PeterShor Really? I hear no datedness at all. All I hear is that one is talking about a girl who is currently outside our house and the other who had been but is not any more. | |
| May 20, 2019 at 22:17 | answer | added | Greg Lee | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 20, 2019 at 19:57 | history | edited | user349044 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 20, 2019 at 19:56 | comment | added | user349044 | @Jim sorry for that :( - edited | |
| May 20, 2019 at 19:55 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 20, 2019 at 19:43 | answer | added | Beth L | timeline score: -3 | |
| May 20, 2019 at 19:36 | comment | added | Peter Shor | That depends on whether your teacher is teaching you outdated rules or not. | |
| May 20, 2019 at 19:35 | comment | added | user349044 | @Peter Shor - I'm confused xD. Does (a) sound acceptable for English teacher? | |
| May 20, 2019 at 19:31 | comment | added | WS2 | @PeterShor Do you have a 19th century example of that? I would certainly agree that the present-day form would be (a). | |
| May 20, 2019 at 19:28 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Do you want 21st century English or 19th century English? It's (a) for 21st and 22nd century (based on my completely unfounded extrapolation), (b) for 19th century. We're currently still in transition, so both are actually fine. | |
| May 20, 2019 at 19:25 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 20, 2019 at 19:20 | history | asked | user349044 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |