 Re: What is the difference between past tense and past particple?
You'd need punctuation, like this,
Pat: Max said, "Mom will be home for dinner."
It's called direct speech or quoting exactly what Max said. If you don't want to quote every wor--say you forgot what Max said exactly--then don't use punctuation and change the verb to past tense,
Sam: Max said Mom would be home for dinner.
Pat uses 'will' and then Sam relays it using 'would' because the original statement "Mom will be home for dinner" was spoken in the past, a minute ago.
Does that help? |