Reported Speech (also called Indirect Speech) is used to communicate what someone else said, but without using the exact words. A few changes are necessary; often a pronoun has to be changed and the verb is usually moved back a tense
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Reported speech has rules to change sentences from direct speech to reported speech, one of those rules changes the time of the verbs, where you need to change always the verb to the past form of his actual form, so: if the verb is in the present tense, you change it to past tense, and if it is in the past tense, you change to the past participle.
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In order to learn and master reported speech, you have to practice a lot.
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Simple past to past perfect
She was eating chicken yesterday.Answer: Mauro said that she had eaten chicken the day before.
An order
Don’t use the cellphone in the virtual evaluation.Answer: The teacher told us not to use the cellphone in the virtual evaluation.
Simple present to simple past
She is reading a book.Answer: He said that she was reading a book.
Reported question
Why didn`t you come to virtual class?Answer: She asked me why I hadn't come to virtual class.