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HOW TO MAKE AN INDIRECT SPEECH

Some examples of changes in from indirect speech in English are give below. See also sequence of lenses.
It is raining hard :
•    She says that it is raining hard. (no change)
•    She said that it was raining hard. (change of tense when the main verb is past tense)
I have painted the ceiling blue :
•    He said that he had painted the ceiling blue. (change of person and tense)
I will come to your party tomorrow :
•    I said that I would come to his party the next day. (change of tense, person and time expression)
How do people manage to live in this city?
•    I asked him how people managed to live in that city. (change of tense and question syntax, and of demonstrative)
Please leave the room :
•    I asked them to leave the room. (use of infinitive phrase)
The tense change illustrated above (also called backshifling), which occur because the main verb (“said”, “asked”) is in the past tense, are not obligatory when the situation described is still valid






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