Are these sentences correct?
Hello, everybody.
I am 90% sure the following sentences are incrorrect, but I need 100%:
Ex1.: He doubts if they visit their uncle tomorrow.
Ex2.: He doubted if they visited their uncle the next day.
Thanks in advance.
They are both incorrect. They should be:
1 - He doubts that they'll visit their uncle tomorrow.
2 - He doubted if they had visited their uncle the next day.
Thank you very much, american nic.
If we were expressing a doubt preceding to the visit the second would be:
2. He doubted if they would visit their uncle the next day.
Your variant is for the case 'doubted' happend after 'visited'.
Am I right?
Your second sentence was almost right Ant_222.
This is what I would have said:
" He doubted that they would visit their uncle the next day".
Yes, sorry for the confusion. For mine, he's doubting after the alleged visit.
Thank you. You helped a lot.