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0 00 I heard Emma is sick. 02 br
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00 1.Is this sentence right? 02 br
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00 2. If not, what is the better to express I knew the thing and Emma is sick now. 02 br
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00 THank you. 00 0-
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00 1.Is this sentence right? 02 br
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00 2. If not, what is the better to express I knew the thing and Emma is sick now. 02 br
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00 THank you. 00 0-
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0 I heard Emma is sick. 00 02 br
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00 The above sentence is perfectly fine. 0-
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00 The above sentence is perfectly fine. 0-
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0 I'm not skilled with technical aspects of tense in English. I'm a native speaker and go by my ear. 02 br
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00 It seems to me it's impossible to hear about someone's future state in the past. Shouldn't it be 01 i 00 I heard Emma was sick? 02 i 02 br
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00 It seems to me it's impossible to hear about someone's future state in the past. Shouldn't it be 01 i 00 I heard Emma was sick? 02 i 02 br
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0 I am not a born-native.English is my second language. My knowledge in the subjet came from the books, TVs, Radio, listening, observatiopn as well as from reading. No guarrantee it's 100% correct. That's why I found this forum because many experts from all over the wrold are here. 05 0 02 br
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00 But it’s highly possible that Emma is still sick at the time of the statement.
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00 But it’s highly possible that Emma is still sick at the time of the statement.
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0 But it's an assumption. 02 br
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00 Suppose you heard she was sick yesterday morning. Then suppose Emma got over her sickness at noon. When you say, "I heard Emma is sick" to your mother in the evening, Emma is no longer sick, and thus, your statement is false. My rationale is this: if what you are saying could be false merely because of your tenses, then you shouldn't
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00 Suppose you heard she was sick yesterday morning. Then suppose Emma got over her sickness at noon. When you say, "I heard Emma is sick" to your mother in the evening, Emma is no longer sick, and thus, your statement is false. My rationale is this: if what you are saying could be false merely because of your tenses, then you shouldn't
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0 I think if you say "I hear Emma is sick" it strongly implies that Emma is still sick. 02 br
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00 But if you say "I heard Emma is sick" it merely states that at the time you heard, Emma was sick (but she could still be sick or well by now.) 0-
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00 But if you say "I heard Emma is sick" it merely states that at the time you heard, Emma was sick (but she could still be sick or well by now.) 0-
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0 I think this is a discussion that gose nowhere. When someone has been sick (as my scenario) for 3 days and I happened to learn of her 02 br
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00 being sick, I would assume she is still not feeling too well. So naturally, with my assumption; my subconsciouness will logicalize the 02 br
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00 statement as present. As I always believe, no matter it’s music,
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00 being sick, I would assume she is still not feeling too well. So naturally, with my assumption; my subconsciouness will logicalize the 02 br
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00 statement as present. As I always believe, no matter it’s music,
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0 1. I heard (that) X is Y. 02 br
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00 2. I heard (that) X was Y. 02 br
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00 Where the speaker thinks that X is no longer Y, #2 is much more likely to be used. 02 br
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00 But where the speaker thinks that X is 01 i 00 still 02 i 00 Y, both structures are used. The present tense in #1 indicates the continuing state of Y.
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00 2. I heard (that) X was Y. 02 br
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00 Where the speaker thinks that X is no longer Y, #2 is much more likely to be used. 02 br
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00 But where the speaker thinks that X is 01 i 00 still 02 i 00 Y, both structures are used. The present tense in #1 indicates the continuing state of Y.
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