Changes of Tenses in Reported Speech | English Grammar B2 Level
open.books4languages.com › english-b2-grammarWe use reported speech to convey the meaning of a conversation that took place in another time, turning the verb tenses into previous ones. In reported speech, the original time of the clause goes one tense back in time: present simple into past simple, present perfect, past perfect; present continuous into past continuous and past perfect continuous; present perfect continuous into past pefect continuous; future into present conditional; future continuous into conditional ...
Reported speech
https://dhaigude.blogspot.com24.05.2020 · When the reporting or principal verb is in the Past Tense, all Present tenses of the direct are changed into the corresponding Past Tenses. a) Direct: He said, “I am unwell.” b) Indirect: He said (that) he was unwell. If the reporting verb is in the Present or Future Tense, the tenses of the Direct Speech do not change.