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Old 31-Mar-2008, 04:11
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Default Re: tenses, indirect speech and Q&A

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Originally Posted by riceball72 View Post

I have been able to get my co-worker to accept and understand that both are used, but now she wants to know which is more common, so she can decide which one to show in her exercises!!!

I have sent an email to friends who are teachers, but wondered what your opinon is.

To me it seems to depend on the kind of emphasize the writer/speaker wants to give???

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You can't possibly hope to create the necessary situations which will give second language learners the opportunity to discern the differences. Let them practice the normal neutral backshift and inform them after that there are circumstances where ENLs have a choice.
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