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by confuse mind » Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:10 pm
4) Although the human resource manager agreed to an abbreviated holiday schedule, he said that it must be posted on the corporate web site so that both management and labor will know what everyone is assigned to do.

(A) he said that it must be posted on the corporate web site so that both management and labor will know what everyone is
(B) he said it had to be posted on the corporate web site so that both management and labor knows what everyone is
(C) he said that they would have to post the assignments on the corporate web site so that management and labor knew what everyone was
(D) he said that the schedule would have to be posted on the corporate web site so that both management and labor would know what everyone was
(E) saying that the schedule had to be posted on the corporate web site so that both management and labor would know what everyone had been


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OA - A[/spoiler]
What is the problem with D since it is in reported speech, we should write the verb one step moved back in past. NO?
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by shekhar.kataria » Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:55 pm
I think you point is right in the second part of the sentence "so that...would...everyone was" but WOULD HAVE TO BE POSTED is the wrong tense.
confuse mind wrote:4) Although the human resource manager agreed to an abbreviated holiday schedule, he said that it must be posted on the corporate web site so that both management and labor will know what everyone is assigned to do.

(A) he said that it must be posted on the corporate web site so that both management and labor will know what everyone is
(B) he said it had to be posted on the corporate web site so that both management and labor knows what everyone is
(C) he said that they would have to post the assignments on the corporate web site so that management and labor knew what everyone was
(D) he said that the schedule would have to be posted on the corporate web site so that both management and labor would know what everyone was
(E) saying that the schedule had to be posted on the corporate web site so that both management and labor would know what everyone had been


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OA - A[/spoiler]
What is the problem with D since it is in reported speech, we should write the verb one step moved back in past. NO?
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