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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Future Tense

Hello,

I would like to know if it is correct the next sentence:

"He said (yesterday) he will invite (tomorrow) me at dinner."

I know how to use the Future in the Past. But I am confussed in using a future action related to a past one.

Thank you.
  

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"He said yesterday that he will/would invite me to/for dinner tomorrow."
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This is reported or indirect speech, so it has to be shifted back a tense: "He said he would invite me for dinner."
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It may be shifted back, but it needn't, ferdis, so long as the second event remains in the future. If it has passed, then the shift must occur:

He said last Saturday that he would invite me to dinner last Sunday.
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Mister MicawberIt may be shifted back, but it needn't, ferdis, so long as the second event remains in the future. If it has passed, then the shift must occur:

He said last Saturday that he would invite me to dinner last Sunday.


Ok. I never learned that. All the examples I've ever seen always changed 'will' into 'would' for reported speech.
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