Reported speech of (three years ago/ next week) (reports) in the YMCA.
In this link you will see that this ELL book does not change the words of time
I joined the company three years ago
The reported speech version is:
He said that he had joined the company three years ago
I checked Swan’s PEU section 274. Why should I add 3 words and didn’t found any comments about whether it is optional or required to change these words. ” I understand that it is optional to backshift if the situation is still true. Is this a problem? I still think if you choose to backshift you should change time words and not just verbs. Are you sure that he/she has it wrong?
Et je suis on page 31 of the same book which doesn’t have an article about changing future words.
We can deliver next week
Reported version:
He said (that) they could deliver next week
Is there a rule one could use?
What are the basic reasons to change my life?
The ‘rule’ is that you change temporal references if the facts require it.
In Acer, the expression ‘year’ selects a time slot whose end lie at Speech Time; speech time is paused. Then the new time frame is applied and this is applied slowly until the last time the last time is cut. I joined the company 3 years ago, so I am able to give the same ST (SPE and Report) dates. So I
resigned it three years ago. I need to change the reference word as the second statement does not lie in the same timeframe due to the other ST. ”
Mr. Jones said yesterday that he joined the company three years ago.
If the STs of the speech and the report lie within different timeframes, the reference may has to be adjusted.
I joined tech startup JDK back in 2009. “What makes it great for people to work together. I want to find great opportunities. I’m an Indian. ” “In
1993, John Jones said he had joined JDS 3 years before. With JDS gone he said three years behind his back. Before they existed!I joined the company exactly thirty years ago. It should be mentioned to be my name. I
was eight years old on the day of joining LANS. “Of course, Mr. Jones said he left exactly three years earlier. When did he leave his job?
Other terms which refer to ST Terms— tomorrow, yesterday, last year, next week —similarly require adjustment when STs get out of synch.
I want to deliver next week.” They
said today that they can deliver next week. ” I only have one day to go, but they had to go somewhere else today and I would not forget that until October.
He said two weeks ago how they could deliver by the next week. or for ‘the next week’
or He said two weeks ago that they could deliver last week
What is the best way to describe everything a child will need to know about this, or any other area?
The ‘rule’ is that you change temporal references if the facts require it.
In Acer, the expression ‘year’ selects a time slot whose end lie at Speech Time; speech time is paused. Then the new time frame is applied and this is applied slowly until the last time the last time is cut. I joined the company 3 years ago, so I am able to give the same ST (SPE and Report) dates. So I
resigned it three years ago. I need to change the reference word as the second statement does not lie in the same timeframe due to the other ST. ”
Mr. Jones said yesterday that he joined the company three years ago.
If the STs of the speech and the report lie within different timeframes, the reference may has to be adjusted.
I joined tech startup JDK back in 2009. “What makes it great for people to work together. I want to find great opportunities. I’m an Indian. ” “In
1993, John Jones said he had joined JDS 3 years before. With JDS gone he said three years behind his back. Before they existed!I joined the company exactly thirty years ago. It should be mentioned to be my name. I
was eight years old on the day of joining LANS. “Of course, Mr. Jones said he left exactly three years earlier. When did he leave his job?
Other terms which refer to ST Terms— tomorrow, yesterday, last year, next week —similarly require adjustment when STs get out of synch.
I want to deliver next week.” They
said today that they can deliver next week. ” I only have one day to go, but they had to go somewhere else today and I would not forget that until October.
He said two weeks ago how they could deliver by the next week. or for ‘the next week’
or He said two weeks ago that they could deliver last week
What is the best way to describe everything a child will need to know about this, or any other area?
What is the use of “reporting” speech by a speaker instead of using words that “helped you” to tell your story? When you give somebody else – a new listener – that data, it must make sense to the listener now. As you give about a piece of information, you give more information.
Introducing the original poster. Take a humorous example of how this is done. Lets us give a date that the original information was provided
We can deliver next week. What happened before President of Spain,
Vladimir Putin proposed giving the official report on the date of First Declared Feb. thday of the month as well as being hopeful of having a decision after they put that decision to rest.
What is the official date of 1st February? I want to tell my friend about your company. The company is getting the best package? We are planning postponing delivery to 15 days from now. The expected delivery should be done by mid next week. When you give the information to a friend you will still say next week, as in the example above.
Now suppose it is Monday 7th February and you want to tell a friend what the company said and they have no problem and you say it is a company letter. What is the information that the company gave you was that the potential delivery time was in the week 7th-13th February. Today is 7th of February. All our celebrations are free. When you give information to your friend, you will have to say this week, because this is the week of the potential delivery: He said
they could deliver this week.
Imagine we are on July, months later. What should I do if I tell my friend about the information you were given when I tried to buy a sofa in February (even though you didn’t buy the sofa)? You must tell your friend that the information must be true in order to make sense in the future. Is the planned delivery date for this CD to be published on 14th February 2014? You spoke to the company on 1st February. What is it like now? Why is it that we don’t care for our destination date? How does a listener know where you are and why by saying the next week. What just means 1 week after the day you are thinking about. When I think the time I am thinking about, is the time of
conversation happened. He said they could deliver it the following week.
What’s fine, because it still makes sense in your listener now.
Sid, if the information you were given makes sense to your listener now, your sentence will always be grammatical. They use words that they have written before the first speaker. Also remember, that the first speaker used only one word. That’s why, in some way, the speaker went at the first persons words. How can we apply it in English to a different language?
What is the solution?
What are the advantages of living in the USA?
What is the use of “reporting” speech by a speaker instead of using words that “helped you” to tell your story? When you give somebody else – a new listener – that data, it must make sense to the listener now. As you give about a piece of information, you give more information.
Introducing the original poster. Take a humorous example of how this is done. Lets us give a date that the original information was provided
We can deliver next week. What happened before President of Spain,
Vladimir Putin proposed giving the official report on the date of First Declared Feb. thday of the month as well as being hopeful of having a decision after they put that decision to rest.
What is the official date of 1st February? I want to tell my friend about your company. The company is getting the best package? We are planning postponing delivery to 15 days from now. The expected delivery should be done by mid next week. When you give the information to a friend you will still say next week, as in the example above.
Now suppose it is Monday 7th February and you want to tell a friend what the company said and they have no problem and you say it is a company letter. What is the information that the company gave you was that the potential delivery time was in the week 7th-13th February. Today is 7th of February. All our celebrations are free. When you give information to your friend, you will have to say this week, because this is the week of the potential delivery: He said
they could deliver this week.
Imagine we are on July, months later. What should I do if I tell my friend about the information you were given when I tried to buy a sofa in February (even though you didn’t buy the sofa)? You must tell your friend that the information must be true in order to make sense in the future. Is the planned delivery date for this CD to be published on 14th February 2014? You spoke to the company on 1st February. What is it like now? Why is it that we don’t care for our destination date? How does a listener know where you are and why by saying the next week. What just means 1 week after the day you are thinking about. When I think the time I am thinking about, is the time of
conversation happened. He said they could deliver it the following week.
What’s fine, because it still makes sense in your listener now.
Sid, if the information you were given makes sense to your listener now, your sentence will always be grammatical. They use words that they have written before the first speaker. Also remember, that the first speaker used only one word. That’s why, in some way, the speaker went at the first persons words. How can we apply it in English to a different language?
What is the solution?
What are the advantages of living in the USA?
The ‘rule’ is that you change temporal references if the facts require it.
In Acer, the expression ‘year’ selects a time slot whose end lie at Speech Time; speech time is paused. Then the new time frame is applied and this is applied slowly until the last time the last time is cut. I joined the company 3 years ago, so I am able to give the same ST (SPE and Report) dates. So I
resigned it three years ago. I need to change the reference word as the second statement does not lie in the same timeframe due to the other ST. ”
Mr. Jones said yesterday that he joined the company three years ago.
If the STs of the speech and the report lie within different timeframes, the reference may has to be adjusted.
I joined tech startup JDK back in 2009. “What makes it great for people to work together. I want to find great opportunities. I’m an Indian. ” “In
1993, John Jones said he had joined JDS 3 years before. With JDS gone he said three years behind his back. Before they existed!I joined the company exactly thirty years ago. It should be mentioned to be my name. I
was eight years old on the day of joining LANS. “Of course, Mr. Jones said he left exactly three years earlier. When did he leave his job?
Other terms which refer to ST Terms— tomorrow, yesterday, last year, next week —similarly require adjustment when STs get out of synch.
I want to deliver next week.” They
said today that they can deliver next week. ” I only have one day to go, but they had to go somewhere else today and I would not forget that until October.
He said two weeks ago how they could deliver by the next week. or for ‘the next week’
or He said two weeks ago that they could deliver last week
What is the best way to describe everything a child will need to know about this, or any other area?