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Tom said If he were me, he would go home



 
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Tom said If he were me, he would go home #1 (permalink) Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:54 pm   Tom said If he were me, he would go home
 

Hi everyone,
I am Trang Nguyen, I'm from Vietnam.
I have a trouble with the reported speech. That is:
In the sentence: "If I were you, I would go home", Tom said
The roported speech of that sentence is: Tom said If he were me, he would go home.
I think the sentence: "If I were you, I would go home", Tom said tell about a really impossible thing, so when we change it into roported speech it must be: Tom said If he had been me, he would have gone home (the third conditional setence).
Please explain for me.
Thanks in advance! :P
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Tom said If he were me, he would go home #2 (permalink) Thu Nov 20, 2008 17:01 pm   Tom said If he were me, he would go home
 

I think "would have gone home" is grammatically correct. However, in daily conversation, most ( native) people would use "I would go home"
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