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(Tense) what he was saying/said was true
Marie-Paul says: 'I thought I had married a fairly ordinary, if slightly egotistical, man. Not a freak. At first I believed that Claude really thought what he was saying was true, but over the years I began to think the whole Raelian movement was a trick to have more sex and to satisfy the enormous ego and need to be worshipped that he had always had.
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Hi, does "what he was saying" imply the saying at that very moment? If I use simple past (what he said), does any implication change?
http://www.rickross.com/reference/raelians/raelians68.html
Hi, does "what he was saying" imply the saying at that very moment? If I use simple past (what he said), does any implication change?
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-- There is no way of judging from that context. -- Not really, since we cannot determine the precise intent of the past continuous there.
- -- There is no way of judging from that context.
- -- Not really, since we cannot determine the precise intent of the past continuous there.
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Hi, does "what he was saying" imply the saying at that very moment?-- There is no way of judging from that context.
If I use simple past (what he said), does any implication change?--Not really, since we cannot determine the precise intent of the past continuous there.
If I use simple past (what he said), does any implication change?--Not really, since we cannot determine the precise intent of the past continuous there.
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