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I remember English Grammar books taught me to change the tense whenever I tried to turn direct speech into indirect speech and remove quote signs, for example, Here is a sentence, Sally said " I am brushing my hair", reported speech will be : Sally said that she WAS brushing hair.
So whats wrong with GMAT? look at the OG question:
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) had long been expected to announce a reduction in output to bolster sagging oil prices, but officials of the organization just recently announced that the group will pare daily production by 1.5 million barrels by the beginning of next year, but only if non-OPEC nations, including Norway, Mexico, and Russia, trim output by a total of 500,000 barrels a day.
So the sentence talks in a past tense what OPEC announced, they are reporting direct speech of OPEC, making it indirect, shouldn't they use the following structure? : Opec announced that they would trim output but only if non-opec countries trimmed.
Am I wrong? I remember first conditional turns into 2nd conditional during these transitions.
Do I need to find my high-school English teacher and scold her that she taught me incorrect rules?
So whats wrong with GMAT? look at the OG question:
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) had long been expected to announce a reduction in output to bolster sagging oil prices, but officials of the organization just recently announced that the group will pare daily production by 1.5 million barrels by the beginning of next year, but only if non-OPEC nations, including Norway, Mexico, and Russia, trim output by a total of 500,000 barrels a day.
So the sentence talks in a past tense what OPEC announced, they are reporting direct speech of OPEC, making it indirect, shouldn't they use the following structure? : Opec announced that they would trim output but only if non-opec countries trimmed.
Am I wrong? I remember first conditional turns into 2nd conditional during these transitions.
Do I need to find my high-school English teacher and scold her that she taught me incorrect rules?
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04 Dec 2020, 03:44
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Learning the rules for reported speech isn't an important part of preparation for GMAT SC.
Anyhow, I don't think you need to pull up your old English teacher
It's more likely that the rules you learnt were limited. Or that you have forgotten some of what you learnt in school.
The OG sentence you quote seems acceptable.
If the original statement was in present tense and it is STILL TRUE, then we do not change tense while reporting.
The original statement by OPEC may have been something like this:
'If non-OPEC nations trim output, OPEC will pare production.'
The statement was "just recently announced".
So the original statement probably still holds.
So we do not need to change the tense while reporting.
Hope this helps.
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Anyhow, I don't think you need to pull up your old English teacher
It's more likely that the rules you learnt were limited. Or that you have forgotten some of what you learnt in school.
The OG sentence you quote seems acceptable.
If the original statement was in present tense and it is STILL TRUE, then we do not change tense while reporting.
The original statement by OPEC may have been something like this:
'If non-OPEC nations trim output, OPEC will pare production.'
The statement was "just recently announced".
So the original statement probably still holds.
So we do not need to change the tense while reporting.
Hope this helps.
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