Fwvo
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I've a problem in distinguishing different sentences. Please see.
1) They said that they had been going to the zoo on their bicycles. ( This sentence gives sense that in the past, they kept going to the zoo again and again)
Now see the following direct speech.
2) They said, "we were going to the zoo on our bicycles." (This line gives the sense that in the past they were going to the zoo only once not again and again)
Now when we convert the above direct speech into indirect speech it becomes.
3) They said that they had been going to the zoo on their bicycles. (Now this sentence is same as sentence 1. But sentence 1 gives another sense and this i.e sentence 3 is an indirect speech of sentence 2 that gives another sense.)
So how can we distinguish between sentence 1 and 3?
1) They said that they had been going to the zoo on their bicycles. ( This sentence gives sense that in the past, they kept going to the zoo again and again)
Now see the following direct speech.
2) They said, "we were going to the zoo on our bicycles." (This line gives the sense that in the past they were going to the zoo only once not again and again)
Now when we convert the above direct speech into indirect speech it becomes.
3) They said that they had been going to the zoo on their bicycles. (Now this sentence is same as sentence 1. But sentence 1 gives another sense and this i.e sentence 3 is an indirect speech of sentence 2 that gives another sense.)
So how can we distinguish between sentence 1 and 3?