Changes in Tenses

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Vaibhav Jindal

Change in tenses when you change direct speech into indirect speech is crucial for understanding reported speech. This lesson by Vaibhav explains how simple present tense changes to simple past, simple past tense to past perfect, present continuous tense to past continuous, and past continuous tense to past perfect tense. The exception to these rules only apply to past perfect, past perfect continuous, and universal truth as in their cases, only the pronoun changes.