Reported speech (mind the exceptions!)   Direct Speech - Reporting verb is present Indirect (Reported) Speech - Reporting verb is present Reporting verb is present in direct speech: e. g. Tim says: “I am tired.”   Reporting verb is present in indirect speech: e. g. Tim says (that) he is tired” (only pronoun changes!)   Direct Speech - Reporting verb is present Indirect (Reported) Speech - Reporting verb is present Reporting verb is past in direct speech: e. g. Tim said: “I am tired today.”   Reporting verb is past in indirect speech: e. g. Tim said (that) he was tired that day” (pronoun, adverb and tense change!). · Present form in direct speech changes to past. · Past form in direct speech changes to past perfect. · Present perfect form in direct speech changes to past perfect. · Future form in direct speech changes to conditional 1.   (c) www.english-tenses.com   no guarantee can be taken for the correctness of all files.                                 Learn English tenses (simple and continuous forms) for free: present, past, present perfect, past perfect, future, passives, conditionals, reported speech!