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which of these two sentences would be correct?
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I thought you said you are Michael Jordan.
Or would the correct form be:
I thought you said you were Michael Jordan.
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I thought you said you are Michael Jordan.
Or would the correct form be:
I thought you said you were Michael Jordan.
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I thought you said you are Michael Jordan.
Or would the correct form be:
I thought you said you were Michael Jordan.
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I thought you said you are Michael Jordan.
Or would the correct form be:
I thought you said you were Michael Jordan.
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Both are grammatical in my dialect of American English, however, I would use them in different contexts. "are" would be used in a direct, factual context perhaps challenging someone on the phone or perhaps challenging someone who just stated that he was Michael Jordan but doesn't look like the famous Michael Jordan. "were" would be used if I weren't certain that I heard the person correctly, or if I were verifying that I heard the person correctly. I have heard people in casual speech contexts use both, in both senses, but the "were" version is rarer, and more likely to be used by someone familiar with the rarely-used subjunctive in English. Whit
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Both are grammatical in my dialect of American English, however, I would use them in different contexts. "are" would be used in a direct, factual context perhaps challenging someone on the phone or perhaps challenging someone who just stated that he was Michael Jordan but doesn't look like the famous Michael Jordan. "were" would be used if I weren't certain that I heard the person correctly, or if I were verifying that I heard the person correctly. I have heard people in casual speech contexts use both, in both senses, but the "were" version is rarer, and more likely to be used by someone familiar with the rarely-used subjunctive in English. Whit
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Both are grammatical in my dialect of American English, however, I would use them in different contexts. "are" would be used in a direct, factual context perhaps challenging someone on the phone or perhaps challenging someone who just stated that he was Michael Jordan but doesn't look like the famous Michael Jordan. "were" would be used if I weren't certain that I heard the person correctly, or if I were verifying that I heard the person correctly. I have heard people in casual speech contexts use both, in both senses, but the "were" version is rarer, and more likely to be used by someone familiar with the rarely-used subjunctive in English. Whit
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Both are grammatical in my dialect of American English, however, I would use them in different contexts. "are" would be used in a direct, factual context perhaps challenging someone on the phone or perhaps challenging someone who just stated that he was Michael Jordan but doesn't look like the famous Michael Jordan. "were" would be used if I weren't certain that I heard the person correctly, or if I were verifying that I heard the person correctly. I have heard people in casual speech contexts use both, in both senses, but the "were" version is rarer, and more likely to be used by someone familiar with the rarely-used subjunctive in English. Whit
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Both are grammatical in my dialect of American English, however, I would use them in different contexts. "are" would be used in a direct, factual context perhaps challenging someone on the phone or perhaps challenging someone who just stated that he was Michael Jordan but doesn't look like the famous Michael Jordan. "were" would be used if I weren't certain that I heard the person correctly, or if I were verifying that I heard the person correctly. I have heard people in casual speech contexts use both, in both senses, but the "were" version is rarer, and more likely to be used by someone familiar with the rarely-used subjunctive in English. Whit
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