and would give up and go back to the life style of dependency you 5) were accustomed to. Should no. 5 be a past tense or the present perfect tense "has been accustomed to"? I find it difficult to understand the use of a past tense in a

I'm not sure that you can see this in terms of exact algorithms Tom. My problem with reported speech is that in the past it's been taught as if there's an all-encompasssing and deterministic rule set to it, whereas the reality of

"Aaron J. Dinkin" (Email Removed) wrote on 12 Nov 2003: But now that you mention it, there are other instances ... in my example, the hard disk definitely crashed last night. All right, what if I replace the last sentence of (A) with