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Well the good news is that the tense change you learnt above stays the same in reported speech for questions. Reported questions- It’s quite interesting. What happens when the sentence we are trying to report was actually a question? That’s something we are going to deal with in this section. Reported speech: She said that the sun rises/rose from the East. For example-ĭirect speech: The sun rises from the East. must stays must or had to(matter of choice)Įxception: A present tense in direct speech may not become a past tense in the reported speech if it’s a fact or something generic we are talking about in the sentence.Some word transitions from direct to reported speech that will come in handy: He said he had trekked the Himalayas this time last year I had trekked the Himalayas this time last year She said that she had been walking near the beach She said she had gone to school that morning Just come back to this table after this section and use this as a summary table: Tense This is a summary table that will be crystal clear to you as you read further. Learn more about Parts of Speech here in detail Reported speech- Play of the tenses: Direct speech tense

Browse more Topics under Transformation Sentences But of the reporting verb is in the past tense, we do change the tense of the sentence. The tense doesn’t have to be changed in this case of reported speech. This sentence could also have been written as “She said she loves to play football.”) (Note 1 : Assume a gender if not mentioned already. Reported speech: She said that she loves to play football. Whenever you report a speech there’s a reporting verb used like “say” or “tell”.