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Grammar
Tenses for indirect reporting in that-clauses
In this essay Stalin [offered] an analysis of modern international history that [sheds] revealing light on the Soviet worldview and [points] to the strategy the Soviet Union would follow in external relations.
This question has been bugging me for a long time - exactly which tense should be adopted when reporting ideas contained in a piece of document written in the past?
In the example above, should the three verbs be [offers, sheds, points], [offered, sheds, points], or [offered, shed, pointed]? Or perhaps more than one of these combinations are possible?
Thank you so much.
Joe
This question has been bugging me for a long time - exactly which tense should be adopted when reporting ideas contained in a piece of document written in the past?
In the example above, should the three verbs be [offers, sheds, points], [offered, sheds, points], or [offered, shed, pointed]? Or perhaps more than one of these combinations are possible?
Thank you so much.
Joe
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In this essay Stalin [offered] an analysis of modern international history that [sheds] revealing light on the Soviet worldview and [points] to the strategy the Soviet Union would follow in external relations. This question has been bugging me for a long time - exactly which tense should be adopted when reporting ideas contained in a piece of document written in the past? In the example above, should the three verbs be [offers, sheds, points], [offered, sheds, points], or [offered, shed, pointed]?
- In this essay Stalin [offered] an analysis of modern international history that [sheds] revealing light on the Soviet worldview and [points] to the strategy the Soviet Union would follow in external relations.
- This question has been bugging me for a long time - exactly which tense should be adopted when reporting ideas contained in a piece of document written in the past?
- In the example above, should the three verbs be [offers, sheds, points], [offered, sheds, points], or [offered, shed, pointed]?
- Or perhaps more than one of these combinations are possible?
- Thank you so much.
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In this essay Stalin [offered] an analysis of modern international history that [sheds] revealing light on the Soviet worldview and [points] to the strategy the Soviet Union would follow in external relations.
This question has been bugging me for a long time - exactly which tense should be adopted when reporting ideas contained in a piece of document written in the past?
In the
This question has been bugging me for a long time - exactly which tense should be adopted when reporting ideas contained in a piece of document written in the past?
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I'd keep the perspective consistent: either [offers, sheds, points] or [offered, shed, pointed].
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