REPORTED SPEECH I

Reported Speech (RS) or Indirect Style (IS) is used to say what other person said. We could say that it is somehow the "gossiping style". 

For instance:
DIRECT STYLE                                                  RS/IS

Eddard said that winter was coming

     





Watch Ronnie's explanation to get the whole picture

Notice that the reporting verb (said) is in past tense, so we have to change the other verbs tenses and also the temporal expression. 

VERB TENSES (backshift)



TEMPORAL&OTHER EXPRESSIONS