sky3120
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"He said that it could have been wrong"
VS.
"He said that it could be wrong"
I have learned that "could have been" is also a past form of "could be" so I think that the first sentence is grammatically correct, considering tense agreement and if we convert it to direct version, we can write it like this:
He said, "it could be wrong"
=He said that it could have been wrong.
What do you teachers think about it?
VS.
"He said that it could be wrong"
I have learned that "could have been" is also a past form of "could be" so I think that the first sentence is grammatically correct, considering tense agreement and if we convert it to direct version, we can write it like this:
He said, "it could be wrong"
=He said that it could have been wrong.
What do you teachers think about it?