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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Opportunity/Possibilty and Indirekt Speech

Hello everybody,

I would be glad if someone could help me with the following Grammar problems:

1. "This job offers you every opportunity/possibility of improving your position." Which word is correct?
2. How do I backshift "over there" in reported speech? Can I just leave it as it is or do I have to replace it by a different expression?

Thanks for your help,
Caro
  

Top answer

Anonymous 1. " Which word is correct? You need this: every opportunity to improve your position Anonymous 2.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous 1.
  • " Which word is correct?
  • You need this: every opportunity to improve your position Anonymous 2.
  • How do I backshift "over there" in reported speech?
  • You don't backshift that, but you might have to change "over there" to "over here" depending on where you are when you report the speech.
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Anonymous1. "This job offers you every opportunity/possibility of improving your position." Which word is correct?
You need this: every opportunity to improve your position
Anonymous2. How do I backshift "over there" in reported speech?
You don't backshift that, but you might have to change "over there" to "over here
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Thanks for your answer. Maybe you can also help me with this:

"They would have come to visit us last night. But the bad weather had prevented (?) them, so they stayed (or) were staying at home all the evening."
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"They would have come to visit us last night. But the ("the" is optional) bad weather prevented them from driving, so they stayed at home all the evening."
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