Direct, Indirect Speech (Narration) - Reported Speech - English Grammar - with Exercises & Quiz

Regarding ex 1: The proper grammatical form is to backshift the tense - "Sarah said that she drank..." although if this is a current habit, you can say "Sarah said that she drinks..." However, in this particular instance, we only have the sentence without the context, so we don't know when the sentence was spoken. What if Sarah said it two months ago and then gave up coffee? Her original words would still be "I drink black coffee every morning." But, we would only be correct in reporting, "Sarah said (two months ago) that she drank black coffee every morning." Remember that if you are unsure, just backshift the tense.
The exception is if the sentence contains a reference to a future time that has still not arrived. Ex: My friend Raj told me this morning, "I'm getting married next month." If I had to report this to another friend today, I would say, Raj told me this morning that he's getting married next month. Notice that this morning and next month stay the same because I'm reporting the sentence on the same day in the same month.

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why drank Mr Ganesh...............can't we use the present tense for drink for every morning because it daily routin??? isn't it need to be present tense instead of past tense???

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Would you please explain the examples with 'let's or let' in the reported speech...

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Sir, if I say""Im an Indian " and when it reported it will be like she said that she was an Indian. Here what is the meaning of' was' .still Im an Indian

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Sir if someone tells me “ I have a wedding “ how can I report this to another person “ just imagine wedding is not finish by now.. 🙏

Sir I have a wedding “ how to report this “ just imagine wedding is not finish by now..

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Because sir in that sentence two tenses are present one is past simple and other is past continuous why you have not backshift the past continuous tense into past perfect continuous in that sentence..
Kindly reply I m confused

Sir may be I am wrong but one practice sentence in direct speech "Didn't Nicole tell you we were coming today?" He asked.
In my opinion it should be changed like....
He asked if Nicole had not told us that they had been coming that day.

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Kindly explain the conversion of verb 'come ' to 'go ' in few sentences in indirect speech .
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" I drink black coffee every morning every morning. "
In this sentence the word 'every' suggests habitual action so, when talking about habitual actions we don't change the tense form... This is what I read.
Could you explain this to me, why you changed the tense form?

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