My boss went to the US
My boss went to the US to meet our customer Tom who audited us last month.
When my boss came back yesterday, he told us.
(1) Boss: Tom said you are ( or were ) a good team.
(2) Boss : Tom said you did ( or do) a good job.
I use "are" for sentence (1) and "did" for sentence (2), am I right?
If I'm right, why I have to use different tense to describe the same thing.
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My boss went to the US
My boss went to the US to meet with our customer auditor, Tom who audited us last month.
When my boss came back yesterday, he told us.
(1) Boss: Tom said you we are ( or were ) a good team.
(2) Boss : Tom said you did ( or do) a good job.
I use "are" for sentence (1) and "did" for sentence (2), am I right?
If I'm right, why I have to use different tense to describe the same thing.
如果在 (1) 用過去詞, 含有不滿的意思! 以前做得好, 現在未必. 因此最好用現代詞, 有鼓勵含意.
在 (2) 必用過去詞, 因為發生的事情已經過去了. 這是事實.
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