Reported Speech

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

Reported speech has rules to change sentences from direct speech to reported speech, one of those rules is change the the time of the verbs, where you need to change always the verb to the past form of his actually form, so: if the verb is in present tense, you change it to past tense, and if it is in past tense, you change to past participle.

In order to learn and master reported speech you have to practice a lot.