Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 10:42 am
Simple past is was.toweter wrote:Put the following statements and questions into reported speech with the introductory verbs in the simple past.
You said is, wich is present
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Simple past is was.toweter wrote:Put the following statements and questions into reported speech with the introductory verbs in the simple past.
bbc.co.uk has excellent site about english grammar and learning english in general.toweter wrote: here's another grammatical question (my last one was lost because of the exchange of the php dn-server a few months ago..). i hope i don't annoy you with my questions about english grammar, but i don't know a board about english grammar and asking here is the fastest way![]()
Take a look: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learn ... tv71.shtmltoweter wrote: The exercise I had to solve:
Put the following statements and questions into reported speech with the introductory verbs in the simple past.
Given statement: A girl: "I am interested in politics." (TO SAY)
My sentence: "A girl said she is interested in politics."
Expected sentence: "A girl said she was interested in politics."
I thought if the girl said "I am interested..." she is now still interested in politics and the expected sentence says she was interested in politics, but she isn't any more!?
Is the sentence with "is" wrong or is it right, too?