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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.
2015년 3월 30일 오전 6:50
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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."
2015년 3월 30일
Letter A is correct. You would not use the past perfect tense to describe his birth in this particular example.
2015년 3월 30일
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