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Change of tenses

The tenses, word-order, pronouns may be different from those in the direct speech sentence. The Past Perfect Tense does not change in the Reported Speech.

	Direct speech	Reported speech
Ann said:	"I want ice-cream."	Ann said that she wanted ice-cream.
Simple Past	Simple Present	Simple Past
Simple Past	Simple Past Present Perfect Past Perfect	Past Perfect
Simple Past	will	would
Reported speech 'to be'
Simple Past	am/is/are	was/were
Simple Past	was/were have/has been had been	had been

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