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The tense form "Future-in-the-past" and sequence of tenses of the English language. The typical feature of tense forms of the English verb is the fact that many of them render the action that happened not according to the moment of speaking but in accordance with some "center" of the corresponding tense. The vivid example of it is the Future-in-the-Past tense, which renders the action that should take place after some definite past moment; in this case such a point is considered as a "tense center". These tense forms are created with the help of auxiliary verbs "should" and "would" and the corresponding infinitive form of the verb, expressing the lexical meaning. Such tense forms are used in Indefinite and in continuous aspects, also in the category of the tense reference (the Future-Perfect-in-the-Past). The peculiarity of "future-in-the-past" forms is the dependable character of their usage: these forms are usually used in complex sentences, when the so called sequence of tenses takes place.
The phenomenon of sequence of tenses is the characteristic regularity of English syntax. Its sense is that the verb-predicate of the subordinate sentence renders the action not in accordance to the moment of speaking, but in accordance to the action expressed by the verb in the main sentence (if the later one is used in the past tense. That is why in such complex sentences the predicate is as if coordinated with the form of the past tense, by which the predicate of the main sentence is expressed, is also expressed by the past tense or "future-in-the-past" form.
In Ukrainian in such cases we can observe another usage of tense forms. For example, in the sentence with indirect speech Bin сказав, що щ Ывчина вчиться в umoni the action вчитъся is considered as such that is happening simultaneously with the action of the verb-form сказав. Using forms of the present tense вчитъся, the author as if considers the action of the subordinate sentence from the point of view of the moment, when there happened the action expressed by the verb-form сказав. So in such a case the author of the sentence uses in the indirect speech this or that tense form as if being carried in his thoughts into the past [5; 83-86].