Present simple and past simple: What is the difference between this simple of both worlds?
What is the meaning of ‘Putin’? Why present and past simple I know
I did not have to tell you how good this record is.
What is this odd sentence? How did we move from
a’self-storage, know that record’ from ‘I know’ to ‘feel free’?
What can I do to improve myself?
I know I didn’t have to tell you how good this record is. I know I knew.
In that case, you told the other person that the record was good, in the past. And in the present you tell him that (e.g. “I know you did not have to tell him that) you know you did not have to tell him that,” says the Rev. C. E. Schultz.
What is so great about this record?
In that case, you don’t tell the other person how good the record is, because you know that you don’t have to. Both “I know” and “I don’t have to” the present exist.
The difference between both sentences is that you told the other person how good the record is & the second sentence, why not?
If the words had actually been spoken, they would have been something like “This record is very good”.
What is the correct word to backshift when we report these words, and introduce the reported statement with a past-tense reporting verb, then I know I did not have to tell you how good this record was.
If the speaker considers that the record is still good at the time of reporting, then backshifting is optional (Swan, Practical English Usage . I know this record is very mediocre as compared with the original phrase. I know I did not have to tell you how good this record is.
If not, why?
