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How Do You Use Reported Speech? 'Take a Step Back in Tense' with One Simple Move to Turn What Someone Said into He said that...
When a friend says "I'm tired" and you want to pass it on to someone else, English takes a step back in tense. Remember one core action: when changing direct speech to reported speech, the present tense steps back to the past tense (say→said, am→was), then easily swap out the pronouns and time words, and you can handle it all with a single conversion chart.
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