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Originally Posted by Alyosha
"the prince said , ' how can i turn away the mother , who born me and nourished me ?"
the sentence itself has a grammatical mistake. one can not say "born me". A person is born. a mother gives birth. a mother does not born someone. I believe the word you're looking for is borne that is the past participle of bear.
@nice051
"prince told (me) that he could not turn away the mother who had born him and nourished him."
by adding not you're changing a positive sentence into a negative one.
The correct answer is The prince asked how could ( simple present into simple past) he turn ( no change in past perfect) away the mother who HAD borne and nourished him. ( borne and nourished are both simple past tense and simple past changes to past perfect)
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reason of adding NOT in the sentence is that actually the prince does not want to turn away or in simple word throw away his mother . ( HOW CAN in the above sentence is used in the sense of ( k asa kesay ho sakta ha \ so while reporting his intention in indirect speech i used the word NOT.
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Originally Posted by zuhaib ahmed
In book Wren and Martin page number 230, look at examples of Direct and Indirect.
Direct. The lecturer said, 'Akbar won the respect of all races and classes by his justice."
Indirect. The lecturer said that Akbar won the respect of all races and classes by his justice.
here past indefinite is not changed into past perfect if it is being changed, it doesn't matter.
Conform it, was there mistake of HAD?
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if we go by rules then HAD must be used.
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