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Indirect speech is a way of reporting what someone said without using their exact words. When reporting statements indirectly, verbs used in the direct speech need to be changed to one tense back. For example, "I never eat meat" would become "He explained that he never ate meat." Some past tenses like the past perfect and past continuous may remain unchanged depending on the context. Unreal past tenses after words like "wish" do not change in indirect speech. Indirect speech follows specific rules to report

Author

Regina Menshikova

Language

EN