Timeline for Why is only one event reported out of two
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
7 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 2017 at 19:12 | history | edited | Andrew | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
deleted 10 characters in body
|
| Dec 12, 2017 at 18:24 | vote | accept | Yves Lefol | ||
| Dec 12, 2017 at 18:18 | comment | added | Yves Lefol | Thanks got it now ,but I really had thought before you explained it to me that this sentence would be he told the police he had left(no backshift) the keys in the car and someone had taken it(backshift possible because past simple) but the time relationship between the sentences was not the same Do you find this kind of sentence inelegant due to mixed tenses? | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 16:06 | comment | added | Andrew | @user5577 I edited my answer, but it changes next to nothing. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 16:06 | history | edited | Andrew | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 189 characters in body
|
| Dec 12, 2017 at 15:30 | comment | added | Yves Lefol | yes but that is not reported speech as the example given | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 6:04 | history | answered | Andrew | CC BY-SA 3.0 |