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Sequence of tenses: She said that Pushkin wrote many fabulous novels...



 
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Sequence of tenses: She said that Pushkin wrote many fabulous novels... #1 (permalink) Mon Jan 12, 2009 17:32 pm   Sequence of tenses: She said that Pushkin wrote many fabulous novels...
 

She said that Pushkin wrote many fabulous novels. - can we use here past
simple because that is the fact known by everyone or it's better to use had
written?
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Sequence of tenses #2 (permalink) Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:42 am   Sequence of tenses
 

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Simple past. There is no call for using past perfect unless perhaps 'she' is speaking in the time of Pushkin.
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Sequence of tenses #3 (permalink) Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:14 am   Sequence of tenses
 

Hi Penuel,

If you used the past perfect in your sentence, you would then have to relate it to a previous time as in: She said he had written many novels before he reached the age of forty.

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Sequence of tenses #4 (permalink) Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:36 am   Sequence of tenses
 

Thank you very much!!!
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Sequence of tenses: She said that Pushkin wrote many fabulous novels... #5 (permalink) Tue Jan 13, 2009 13:54 pm   Sequence of tenses: She said that Pushkin wrote many fabulous novels...
 

Thank you very much, would you please point any grammar references for that case.
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Sequence of tenses: She said that Pushkin wrote many fabulous novels... #6 (permalink) Tue Jan 13, 2009 14:07 pm   Sequence of tenses: She said that Pushkin wrote many fabulous novels...
 

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HERE is one explanation.
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