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   Hi, Anton Shepelev! -> All   
   I read your message from 05.08.2021 13:45   
      
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   Publio to spies (later):   
     Send your men into the markets and wharfside dives and learn if   
     one Beloso, a Zingaran, is in Messantia. Conan said he had a gem,   
     which he will probably seek to dispose of.   
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    AS> Publio back-shifted `have' into `had', but kept the present tense   
    AS> of `will'*. Why? If Conan's information about Beloso's posession of   
    AS> the gem deserves a degree of remotentess exressed by the past   
    AS> tense, why not give like treatment to his words about the intent of   
    AS> Beloso to sell it, i.e.:   
      
    AS> Conan said he had a gem, which he would probably seek to dispse of.   
      
   IMHO, "which he will probably seek to dispose of" doesn't belong to   
   Conan, and, therefore, there is no need for the time switch.   
      
   Bye, Anton!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2021   
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