Reported Speech

Basic Tense Chart

 The tenses generally move backwards in this way (the tense on the left changes to the tense on the right). - See more at: http://www.rubenvalero.com/english/content/reported-speech#sthash.UmrPMLLo.dpuf

Other verb forms

Other verb forms also sometimes change:

Things are slightly more complicated with imperatives

Time and place references

Example:

"I'm staying here until next week"
→ He said he was staying there until the following week. 

Personal pronouns

 You also need to be careful with personal pronouns. They need to be changed according to the situation.

Remember:

The verb tenses do not always follow the rules shown above

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