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Conditional , indirect speech - total mix up

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00Please , could you tell me if the below are correct and if not could you correct them? 02br
00Please tell me if in #2, options a,b,c are possible. 02br
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001. 02br
00I could remember him saying that he wouldn't be doing what he does today if he hadn't met the girl who became his wife. 02br
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002. 02br
00a) I remembered him saying that he would have attended English classes if he had been wiser. 02br
00b) I remembered when he said that ..........(as in #a) 02br
00c) I remembered him say .that ......(as in #a) 02br
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00thank you in advance 0-
  

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0 No. 1 is best- as for the others 02br 00A is good, but if you were to say this to someone you would normally use the present tense 02br 00for remember, as it would be a more personal way to impart that single thought. If you were illuding to a broader context, as trying to recount your own past actions, the past tense would 02br 00be appropriate.

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  • 0 No.
  • 1 is best- as for the others 02br 00A is good, but if you were to say this to someone you would normally use the present tense 02br 00for remember, as it would be a more personal way to impart that single thought.
  • If you were illuding to a broader context, as trying to recount your own past actions, the past tense would 02br 00be appropriate.
  • C would be structurally unsound 0-
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0 No. 1 is best- as for the others 02br
00A is good, but if you were to say this to someone you would normally use the present tense 02br
00for remember, as it would be a more personal way to impart that single thought. If you were illuding to a broader context, as trying to recount your own past actions, the past tense would 02br
00be appropriate. C would be
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