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Tom says, “I’ll never give up”.
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Tom says he’ll never give up.
But indirect speech is usually introduced by a verb in the past tense. In this case verbs in the direct speech have to
be changed into one past equivalent tense.
· Present simple – Past simple
· Present continuous – Past continuous
· Present perfect – Past perfect
· Present perfect continuous – Past perfect continuous
· Past – Past perfect
· Past perfect – Past perfect
· Past perfect continuous – Past perfect continuous
· Will – Would
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Tom said, “I never eat meat”.
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Tom said he never ate meat.
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He said, “I’ve seen it before”.
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He said he had seen it before.
If the statement given in direct speech is still truth we don’t have to change the tense while turning direct speech
into indirect.
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She said, “New York is bigger than London”.
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She said New York is bigger than London.
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