Conditional , indirect speech - total mix up

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#90875 Sun, 17 Apr 05 05:56 PM

Hello,

Please , could you tell me if the below are correct and if not could you correct them?
Please tell me if in #2, options a,b,c are possible.

1.
I could remember him saying that he wouldn't be doing what he does today if he hadn't met the girl who became his wife.

2.
a) I remembered him saying that he would have attended English classes if he had been wiser.
b) I remembered when he said that ..........(as in #a)
c) I remembered him say .that ......(as in #a)

thank you in advance

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Conditionals, Direct speech, Indirect speech

lookfar

#91659 Wed, 20 Apr 05 03:26 AM

No. 1 is best- as for the others
A is good, but if you were to say this to someone you would normally use the present tense
for remember, as it would be a more personal way to impart that single thought. If you were illuding to a broader context, as trying to recount your own past actions, the past tense would
be appropriate. C would be structurally unsound

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Conditionals, Direct speech, Indirect speech, Past tenses, Present tenses, Tenses