English Language Learners Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for speakers of other languages learning English. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
Direct Speech:
She said to me, "I was thinking of helping him but changed my mind later on"
What is the correct indirect form??
a) She told me that she had been thinking of helping him but changed her mind.
b)She told me that she had been thinking of helping him but had changed her mind.
Both are grammatically correct. As you are practising back-shifting, you are probably expected to backshift both verb phrases to the past perfect.
There is an error near the end of both your examples... can you find it?
