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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Tenses

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00Please check these.02br
00Uses of phrase "found out":02br
00 (the city is going to raise taxes and the action of raising taxes hasn't iniitated.)02br
00 1) I found out that the city 00is going to/will/is planning to00 raise taxes.02br
00I don't see much difference with this:02br
00I found out that the city would raise taxes.02br
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00(It's news that my friend is going to get married and he hasn't married.)02br
002) I found out my friend is going to/will/is planning to get married. 02br
00I don't see much difference with this:02br
00I found out my friend would get married.02br
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00Use of word "said":02br
003) My friend said that the city 00will/ is going00 to raise taxes.02br
00I see a difference with this and the sentence below seems to be OKbut not as good as the above sentence Why? Is that because raising taxes is still in a planning stage and has not been instituted?02br
00My friend said that the city 00would00 raise taxes.02br
004) My friend said the city will/is going to raise taxes after July 7th.02br
00My friend said that the city would be raising taxes after the date of July 7th.?? -- how would you rewrite this with shifting-back the tense when a future date is involved. 0-
  

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02br 00I don't see much difference with this:02br 00I found out that the city 01del 00would02del 01font 00 will02font 00 raise taxes. 01font 00The choice of tenses here depends on the meaning you want to give us. If you mean that there is a more planning in this situation, "going to or planning to " can be used.

— Doll

  • 02br 00I don't see much difference with this:02br 00I found out that the city 01del 00would02del 01font 00 will02font 00 raise taxes.
  • 01font 00The choice of tenses here depends on the meaning you want to give us.
  • If you mean that there is a more planning in this situation, "going to or planning to " can be used.
  • But I prefer "will" with find out because "will" means something more immeadiate or something decided or learned at the time of speaking.
  • )02br 002) I found out my friend is going to/will/is planning to get married.
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1font00My try: 02font02br
02br
00Uses of phrase "found out":02br
00 (the city is going to raise taxes and the action of raising taxes hasn't iniitated.)02br
00 1) I found out that the city 00is going to/will/is planning to00 raise taxes.02br
00I don't see much difference with this:02br

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0Thank you, Doll, for your help.02br
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00Is there a contracdiction in your answers?02br
00YOUR RESPONSE:02br
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00My friend said that the city 00would00 raise taxes. 01font00I would say that this sentence is wrong... 02br
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00AND THIS:02br
02font004) My fri
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0Oh I think there is a problem with making our points clear. I thought you are asking us how to make a choice between "will" and "going to" in your first examples because you didn't mention about backshifting. I just thought that you are asking reported speech only for 4.0-
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0These are all fine (with or without the parenthesized phrase): 02br
01i00[I found out / My friend said] that the city [is going to / is planning to / intends to / was going to / was planning to / intended to] raise taxes (after July 7th).02i02br
01i00[I found out / My friend said] that the city [will / would] be raising taxes (after July 7th).02i
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0 Thank you. Would this be good as reported speech?02br
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00John: "I will raise taxes (on July 6th)."02br
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00Reported Speech:02br
001. John said that he will raise taxes (on July 6th)??02br
002. Johh said that he would raise taxes (on July 6th)?? 02br
003. John said that he would be raising taxes (on July 6th)??0
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01cite10Anonymous12cite101. John said that he will raise taxes (on July 6th)??12br
102. Johh said that he would raise taxes (on July 6th)?? 12br
103. John said that he would be raising taxes (on July 6th)??12blockquote
10 The second is the most usual way of reporting what John said, and it's pr
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