Can you tell me which sentence is right? Thank you very much. Can you tell me which sentence is right? Thank you very much. A. She told her son that he was an accident--that she hadn't been planning

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Can you tell me which sentence is right? Thank you very much. Can you tell me which sentence is right? Thank you very much. A. She told her son that he was an accident--that she hadn't been planning to have a child. B. She told her son that he had been an accident--that she hadn't been planning to have a child.

Mar 30, 2015 6:50 AM

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To me, they both sound okay. "A" sounds to me like she hadn't planned to have her son, and she still wishes she hadn't had him, while "B" sounds to me like she hadn't planned to have her son, but she doesn't consider him an "accident" anymore. The reason they sound that way to me is that they could be rewritten with quotations, and in my opinion they'd be rewritten as: A. She told her son, "You are an accident--I wasn't planning to have a child." B. She told her son, "You were an accident--I wasn't planning to have a child."

March 30, 2015