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No	DIRECT SPEECH		INDIRECT SPEECH
	Tenses	Direct Sentence	Tenses	Indirect Sentence
1	Simple Present	Nara said, “I eat rice.”	Simple Past	Nara said that she ate rice.
2	Present Continuous	Nara said, “I am eating rice.”	Past Continuous	Nara said that she was eating rice.
3	Present Perfect	Nara said, “I have eaten rice.”	Past Perfect	Nara said that she had eaten rice.
4	Present Perfect Continuous	Nara said, “I have been eating rice.”	Past Perfect Continuous	Nara said that she had been eating rice.
5	Simple past	Nara said, “I ate rice.”	Past Perfect	Nara said that she had eaten rice.
6	Future	Nara said, “I will eat rice.”	Conditional	Nara said that she would eat rice.
7	Future Continuous	Nara said, “I will be eating rice.”	Conditional Continuous	Nara said that she would be eating rice.
8	Modal	Nara said, “I can eat rice.”	Past Modal	Nara said that he could eat rice.

Now, let us see the words which get changed when the Direct Speech is changed into Indirect Speech.

• Now becomes then
• Here becomes there
• Ago becomes before
• Thus becomes so
• Today becomes that day
• Tomorrow becomes the next day
• Yesterday becomes the day before
• Last night becomes the night before
• This becomes that
• These becomes those

Example:

Direct: He said to Mary, “Please wait here till I return.”
Indirect: he requested Mary to wait there till he returned.