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Direct Indirect Conversion Table

Reported speech involves changing the tense of direct speech to its past form, a process known as backshifting. This typically results in a shift in the verb tense used. Additionally, changes in pronouns are also necessary when converting direct speech to reported speech.

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Direct Indirect Conversion Table

Reported speech involves changing the tense of direct speech to its past form, a process known as backshifting. This typically results in a shift in the verb tense used. Additionally, changes in pronouns are also necessary when converting direct speech to reported speech.

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REPORTED SPEECH/ INDIRECT SPEECH

Reported speech tenses will change from that of the direct speech in most
cases.
This is known as backshifting in reported speech, with the basic rule that a
tense is shifted back to its past tense form. Some of the examples are given
below:
CHANGES IN PRONOUNS

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