Timeline for Change possible habitual actions to indirect speech
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| Oct 4, 2018 at 16:02 | comment | added | Du Brisingr Arget | I understand your point, but I still interpret it as what the croc normally has for dinner partly because of the sentences in front of it. I'll edit my question so it contains the full paragraph | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 15:48 | comment | added | KeykoYume |
from my point of view, this case is not part of the exceptional rules as what the crocodile had for dinner refers to a moment in the past. It's not a habitual action...the elephant is not asking what the crocodile usually has for dinner, she asks him what he had or was going to have for dinner that moment in time, that specific day
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| Oct 4, 2018 at 15:43 | comment | added | Du Brisingr Arget | Besides, I think this applies to exceptional rules myenglishtutor.in/… sorry if I'm wrong and if so, could you explain why? | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 15:30 | comment | added | Du Brisingr Arget | But wouldn't the meaning change? | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 15:27 | history | answered | KeykoYume | CC BY-SA 4.0 |