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Ken_oy Posted 14 years ago
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"I told her I will/would be there"?

I have a 3o'clock meeting, now is 2. I am telling some else about my meeting member. So, how can I say? "I told her I will/would be there"?
  

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it is a reported speech, you should report your own word, so; you should say:

"I told her I would be there at ..."
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ken_oyI told her I will/would be there"
would is probably the most usual choice.
People choose on the basis of matching tenses. told ... goes with would ....
For the most part they tend to ignore any information about real time, so that explanation you gave about 3 o'clock and 2 o'clock doesn't influence their decision.

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