Гордон, Крылова «Сборник упражнений по грамматике английского языка», 2005 г.
Тема – may. У меня страница 114, упр. 13.
Задание - перевести:
Они, возможно, подумали, что мы не придем в такой дождь.
Ответ по ключу: They may have thought that we won’t come in this rain.
Вопрос: Не лучше ли здесь подойдет would not? Каково правило и в каком учебнике его прочитать?
Михаил
You are right. It's a mistake. It should be:
They may think (that) we won't come over.OR
They may have thought we wouldn't come over. The perfect form is used here to give the modal verb "may" a past meaning.
=They probably thought we wouldn't come over.