Is it correct?
Yesterday night, I was starting my first reading on the novel The Tenant Of Wildfield Hall, an adaptation actually.
I read a sentence as below, I wonder if it is not correct. I'm not so sure of it because the rewriter is an English native speaker.
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Mary Millward was silent, as well, during the party, Eliza told me that her father had said she must come, as she was spending too much time on only housework duties and never rested.
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I think the word 'must' in the sentence above should be 'had to'. Am I right?
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Is it correct?
Yesterday(Last) night, I (began) my first reading (of) the novel The Tenant Of Wildfield Hall, an adaptation actually.
I read a sentence below, I wonder if it is correct. I'm not so sure of it because the rewriter is an English native speaker.
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Mary Millward was silent, as well, during the party, Eliza told me that her father had said she must come, as she was spending too much time on only housework duties and never rested.
... ...
I think the word 'must' in the sentence above should be 'had to'. Am I right?
As the novel was originally written in the 1890s the language is correct, however today we could say "had to".
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