This is an extract from Verbal Tenses, Passive Voice and Reported Speech: Grammar, Uses, Exercises 37 n.7, 38 (2010), citing Tillman & Tillman's A Fragment on Shall and May.Seth Barrett Tillman
Reported speech is the way a listener would narrate the incident in front of another person.For ExampleHe asked me to tell what I knew I said that I didn’t know anything on that topic.Direct to Reported SpeechThe verbs in present tense will change into their corresponding past tenses in ...