![]() ![]() If there is already past tense in reported speech it will shift into past perfect. So most often, the reported speech is going to be in the past tense, because the original statement, will now be in the past We will learn about reporting verbs in part 2 of this lesson, but for now we will just use said/told. ![]() Practice exercise for change of tenses (Present to past). Table given below will further clarify your concept. In second sentence continuous will remain continuous only present changes into past and it becomes past continuous. How actually this change takes place, in sentence no.1 present tense changes into past i.e indefinite will remain indefinite only present changes into past so it becomes past indefinite. In above stated examples we change present indefinite of reported speech into past indefinite and present continuous into past continuous because there is past tense in reported speech. ![]()
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