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This document discusses the sequence of tenses rule in English grammar. It presents two traditional viewpoints on how tense is interpreted in subordinate clauses. First, that tense is indirectly linked to the speech time through higher clauses. Second, that a past tense in the main clause requires past tenses in subordinate clauses. The document also argues that the scope of the sequence of tenses rule goes beyond indirect discourse. It motivates analyzing the rule as having both a formal syntactic componen

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magdalena1976

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EN