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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Idirect speech

i kindly ask about reported speech:

he told me that in any case he has to reinstall the software on my PC.

Is it correct? Thank you very much.
  

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He told me that in any case he has to reinstall the software on my PC. Yes, it makes sense as long as the software still needs reinstalling.

  • He told me that in any case he has to reinstall the software on my PC.
  • Yes, it makes sense as long as the software still needs reinstalling.
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He told me that in any case he has to reinstall the software on my PC.

Yes, it makes sense as long as the software still needs reinstalling.
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It will depend on his original sentence.

So, if he said, "In any case I will have to reinstall the software on your PC.", then in reported speech you have

He said that in any case he would have to reinstall the software on my PC

However, if he said, "In any case I have to reinstall the software on your PC.", then "have to" becomes "had to"

He said that i

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