Answer by Araucaria - Not here any more. for Reported speech of (three years...
It is better to think about reported speech as reporting information somebody gave you, not as reporting words that someone told you. When you give somebody else - a new listener - that information, it...
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The 'rule' is that you change temporal references if the facts require it.For instance, ago designates a timespan whose end lies at ‘Speech time’ (ST), the time a speech is uttered. If the STs of the...
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In this link you will see that this ELL book does not change the words of timeI joined the company three years agoThe reported speech version is:He said that he had joined the company three years agoI...
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