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Message   alexande    Ardith Hinton   Reported speach and BBC World   March 3, 2018
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From: "alexander koryagin" <koryagin@erec.ru>

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Hi, Ardith Hinton! How are you?
on Tuesday, 19 of June, I read your message to alexander koryagin
about "Reported speach and BBC World"

 AH> Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:

 ak>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18192375
 ak>> =========Beginning of the citation==============
 ak>> After watching the footage, Mr Campbell said he believes Uefa should
 ak>> not have chosen the countries as hosts of such a prestigious event
 ak>> in the first place.
 ak>> =========The end of the citation================

 ak>> Should it have been written in this way:
 ak>> Mr Campbell said (that) he believed UEFA should not have chosen the
 ak>> countries...


 AH>            Assuming that Mr. Campbell is still alive & well, that he
 AH> made the remark(s) attributed to him shortly before the news reporters
 AH> rushed to their computers in order to meet a deadline or to get ahead
 AH> of the competition, and that I've seen no evidence suggesting he may
 AH> have changed his mind... I'd say "he believes".  IOW, I'm treating the
 AH> verb as an ongoing action here....  :-)

 ak>> It seems to me that there is a rule how to transform a direct speech
 ak>> into indirect one.

               +++ there is the rule how... ??

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 AH>            Another example: within the last week or so Alexander
 AH> informed the denizens of this echo that he was puzzled about xxx.  I'm
 AH> reporting in my own words, although Fidonet technology enables me to
 AH> quote exactly what Alexander said.  To the best of my knowledge nobody
 AH> else has responded to his concerns. But a lot can happen in a week or
 AH> so & electronic mail goes missing in action from time to time,
 AH> therefore I can't be sure Alexander is still puzzled.  ;-)

So, if you had written "After reading Mr Cambell words, Alexander informs the
denizens of this echo that he would have written some sentences in other way"
you would have meant that I am still puzzled.

[...]
Bye Ardith!
Alexander (yAlexKo[]yandex.ru) + 2:5020/2140.91
fido7.english-tutor 2012 



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