Reported Speech
Is there anyone who could help me? What's the reported speech transformation for this sentence:
"I hope I don't have to refer to this again"
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Reported Speech
Is there anyone who could help me? What's the reported speech transformation for this sentence:"I hope I don't have to refer to this again"
Many thanks!
In order to change a sentence to reported speech, we need to know who the speaker is. But, in this case, if we assume “I’ am the speaker, then your sentence should read, “I said that I hoped I didn't have to refer to this again."
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I think it has to be "wouldn't". At the time you were hoping, the hope would refer to the future. So you'd have something like "I said that I hoped that I wouldn't have to refer to ..." If your "hope" had referred to the past, you might have something like "he said that he hoped that he didn't have to refer to ..." But wouldn't this be nonsensical, for an "I" with a memory of that past ?
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“Wouldn’t” is more the possibility that you would have to. Less certainty. It sounds more natural to me.
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I hope i can help u but, What exactly do u mean?
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Do they have differences in meaning by using didn't/wouldn't? Thanks for your attention!!
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