Abil Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Say and said
Some 18,000 security personnel have thrown a cordon around the meeting venue in Cha-am, some 200km (125 miles) south of Bangkok, say reports.
Will the sentence be grammatically wrong if I replace "say" with its past form "said"?
Will the sentence be grammatically wrong if I replace "say" with its past form "said"?
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Hi, Some 18,000 security personnel have thrown a cordon around the meeting venue in Cha-am, some 200km (125 miles) south of Bangkok, say reports. Will the sentence be grammatically wrong if I replace "say" with its past form "said"? 'Said' would suggest that reports do not say that at the present time, ie they no longer say that.
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Hi,
Some 18,000 security personnel have thrown a cordon around the meeting venue in Cha-am, some 200km (125 miles) south of Bangkok, say reports.
Will the sentence be grammatically wrong if I replace "say" with its past form "said"?
'Said' would suggest that reports do not say that at the present time, ie they no longer say that.
Some 18,000 security personnel have thrown a cordon around the meeting venue in Cha-am, some 200km (125 miles) south of Bangkok, say reports.
Will the sentence be grammatically wrong if I replace "say" with its past form "said"?
'Said' would suggest that reports do not say that at the present time, ie they no longer say that.
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