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I believe only one sentence of the two is grammarly grammatically correct. Both are correct. You can use either one, and they both have the same meaning. I would use the one with the present tense in a situation where I wanted to give the
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Icadia, I understood the focus of your question; therefore, I mentioned that 'if the indirect speech itself contains a subordinate clause (introduced by until...
in your case), then the verb of that subordinate clause may be in the
present
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Greetings, Icadia, Direct speech: It's against the law in our state for her to drive until she has been seizure-free for six months. Indirect speech: 1. The provisions of the legislation have probably not changed by the time of reporting
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gleb_chebrikoff
3 days ago 8:58 am
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You can, but native speakers normally use simple present in the subordinate clause: I'll do what I'm asked to do.
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Hi, Both 'thought' and 'fixed' are past tense. The fact that the car is, in the present, fixed or not doesn't change your word choice for this sentence. You are correct when you say the past tense ' thought ' is to
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bradnugent
12 days ago
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Hi,
Welcome to the Forum.
Problem 1: img687.imageshack.us/img687/4138/testnx.jpg It's much easier for us to respond if you actually post the question here. Most of us don't want to go off and start searching other sites. It takes
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clive
12 days ago
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Hi, I'm a Pole trying to explore the intricacies English This is my first post here so, welcome everybody. And here are my problems. I've done these tests and I even got the key, but there is no freaking way I can understand some answers.
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chudziol
12 days ago
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Many thanks for your information then for the last example: if i have seen you, i will wave --> if + Present perfect, present future?
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This sentence looks wrong to me...Please help and tell me why! I can't even begin to guess why the sentence looks wrong to you. Perhaps it's because it is ambiguous whether spread is a present tense or a past participle in an implied
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Hi, rishila, welcome to English Forums. Thanks for joining us! The use of "do" is a little hard to get used to. I'm not sure what you mean by "for pronoun only." It's used a lot in questions and negative statements.
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avangi
14 days ago
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