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Direct-Indirect Speech - Simple Sentences

Rule No. 5

Reporting Verb के टेन्स को देखें और यदि यह एक Past Tense है, तो Indirect Speech में Reported Speech का टेन्स निम्नलिखित नियम के अनुसार Past Tense में बदला जाता है:

Look at the Tense of the Reporting Verb and If it is a Past Tense, then the Tense of the Reported Speech in Indirect Speech is changed to Past Tense according to the following Rule:

Tense of Reported Speech in Direct Speech	Tense will change to____ in the Indirect Speech	Example: Direct Speech	Example: Indirect Speech
Simple Present	Simple Past	She said, "I am a writer."	She said that she was a writer.
Present Indefinite	Past Indefinite	She said, "I write a letter."	She said that she wrote a letter.
Present Continuous	Past Continuous	She said, "I am writing a letter."	She said that she was writing a letter.
Present Perfect	Past Perfect	She said, "I have written a letter."	She said that she had written a letter.
Present Perfect Continuous	Past Perfect Continuous	She said, "I have been writing a letter for two hours."	She said that she had been writing a letter for two hours."

Past Indefinite	Past Perfect	She said, "She wrote a letter."	She said that she had written a letter.
Past Continuous	Past Perfect Cont.	She said, "I was writing a letter."	She said that she had been writing a letter.
Past Perfect	No change of Tense	She said, "I had written a letter."	She said that she had written a letter.
Past Perfect Continuous	No change of Tense	She said, "I had been writing a letter for two hours."	She said that she had been writing a letter for two hours."
Will/Shall in Future Tense	Would/ Should (Should with Pronoun 'I' & 'We' only)	She said, "I shall write a letter."	She said that she should write a letter.
Can	Could	She said, "I can write a letter."	She said that she could write a letter.
May	Might	She said, "I may write a letter."	She said that she might write a letter.
Could/ Should/ Would/ Might	No Change	She said, "I would write a letter."	She said that she would write a letter.

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