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This document discusses reported speech and the sequence of tenses in English and Serbian. It explains that in indirect speech, verbs and some other words change to reflect the new context created by using a reporting verb like "said" in the past tense. In English, this involves "moving back" tenses following past tense reporting verbs, while in Serbian simultaneity is expressed with the present tense and anteriority with the perfect tense. It provides examples of how tenses are changed in reported speech i

Author

Jasna Markovic

Language

EN