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Reported Speech with tense shift

Original statement
Present simple (write/writes)
Present continuous (is/are talking)
Present perfect (have/ has lived)
Past simple (ate)
Will
May
Can
Am/is/are going to

Reported form
Past simple (wrote)
Past continuous (was/were talking)
Past perfect (had lived)
Past perfect (had eaten)
Would
Might
Could
Was/were going to

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