Direct And Indirect Speech Simple Present Tense Exercises. Simple present tense usually changes to the simple past in reported speech. Direct and indirect speech of simple present tense we often convey a message or give information about what someone said thought or felt to somebody else.
For example in the following sentence the present simple becomes the past simple in indirect speech. He said he had a new car. Simple present tense usually changes to the simple past in reported speech.
All the other tenses follow a similar change in indirect speech.
For example in the following sentence the present simple becomes the past simple in indirect speech. He said he had a new car. Direct speech reported speech indirect speech he says we are in london for the first time direct speech he says that they are in london for the first time reported speech indirect speech he says we were in london for the first time direct speech he says that they were in london. For example in the following sentence the present simple becomes the past simple in indirect speech.
