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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
conditional type 1 in reported speech
- hello everyone,
- “If the weather is fine, I will go on a picnic with my friends,” she said to me.
- reported speech: she said to me if the weather was fine, she would go on a picnic with her friends.
- am i right or wrong?
- can you explain and give me some more rules about this grammar point?
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Anonymous can Can you explain and give me some more rules about this grammar point? You already have the rule. Backshift all the tenses in the original.
- Anonymous can Can you explain and give me some more rules about this grammar point?
- You already have the rule.
- Backshift all the tenses in the original.
- is backshifts to was ; will backshifts to would , just as you have done.
- CJ
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AnonymousYou already have the rule. Backshift all the tenses in the original. is backshifts to was; will backshifts to would, just as you have done.canCan you explain and give me some more rules about this grammar point?
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Hi. Can we leave the tenses as they were? Thank you for your anticipated help.
She said if the weather is fine, she will go on a picnic with her friends
She said if the weather is fine, she will go on a picnic with her friends
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AnonymousCan we leave the tenses as they were?Yes. That would be in the case where the picnic hasn't yet taken place. But it would not work in the case where you were retelling the story of a picnic that had already happened in the past.
The backshifted version would work in either case.
CJ
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Hi. What do you think of the following?
In a section called "Advanced Points in Reported Speech" in LoreGate.com's Learning English Easily, under the bold-letter heading of "Exceptions," it is written:
Simple Past and Past Progressive do not normally change in sentences with when / if.
Example: "When I was having breakfast, the telephone suddenly
In a section called "Advanced Points in Reported Speech" in LoreGate.com's Learning English Easily, under the bold-letter heading of "Exceptions," it is written:
Simple Past and Past Progressive do not normally change in sentences with when / if.
Example: "When I was having breakfast, the telephone suddenly
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AnonymousWhat do you think of the following?It sounds entirely reasonable to me.
CJ
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