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close the door when you go out
0 X : Close the door when you go out. 02 br
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00 Y: X told me to close the door when 01 u 00 I go out / when I went out 02 u 02 br
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00 which one is correct? Go out or went out? Do we have to change the clause after 00 when 00 in reported speech? Is it ok if we leave it as is. 0-
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00 Y: X told me to close the door when 01 u 00 I go out / when I went out 02 u 02 br
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00 which one is correct? Go out or went out? Do we have to change the clause after 00 when 00 in reported speech? Is it ok if we leave it as is. 0-
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02 br 02 br 00 You can keep the present tense ("go out") if the action of "going out" is not too far away in the past : "Turn down the radio, I can't hear her! " 02 br 02 br 00 On the other hand, you use the simple past when the "going out" is situated further in the past. (This is an investigation about a murder).
- 02 br 02 br 00 You can keep the present tense ("go out") if the action of "going out" is not too far away in the past : "Turn down the radio, I can't hear her!
- " 02 br 02 br 00 On the other hand, you use the simple past when the "going out" is situated further in the past.
- (This is an investigation about a murder).
- Police inspector: "The front door was open.
- " - " Yes we do!
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0 Either are OK. 02 br
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00 You can keep the present tense ("go out") if the action of "going out" is not too far away in the past : "Turn down the radio, I can't hear her! What did she say?" - "she told you to close the door when you go out!" 02 br
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00 On the other hand, you use the simple past when the "going out" is situated further in the past. (This i
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00 You can keep the present tense ("go out") if the action of "going out" is not too far away in the past : "Turn down the radio, I can't hear her! What did she say?" - "she told you to close the door when you go out!" 02 br
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00 On the other hand, you use the simple past when the "going out" is situated further in the past. (This i
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01 cite 10 Pieanne 12 cite 10 Either are OK. 12 br10 Thank you Pieanne!I'm glad you answered my question but one more thing. Why "either are" but not "either is"? Is it a correct usage. "either" must follow singular, musn't it?" as in "either is OK" 05 0 010id 37
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0 You're quite right! Sorry! Sloppy thinking/typing... 02 br
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00 I should have written "both are OK", or "Either is OK"! 0-
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00 I should have written "both are OK", or "Either is OK"! 0-
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0 With all due respect, I am going offer my two cents. 02 br
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00 In your sentence, "X told me to close the door when I go out /when I went out." 02 br
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00 To me, the correct sentence is (because it sounds as that in my ear) "X told me to close the door when I go out." and 01 u 00 not 02 u 00 "X told me to close the door when I went out."
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00 In your sentence, "X told me to close the door when I go out /when I went out." 02 br
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00 To me, the correct sentence is (because it sounds as that in my ear) "X told me to close the door when I go out." and 01 u 00 not 02 u 00 "X told me to close the door when I went out."
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0 If you say "X told me to close the door when I went out", it means X told me that 01 b 00 at the moment when I went out 02 b 00 . I think it's a correct sentence... 0-
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