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How to change into indirect speech " She said to me, Where were you living before you came here?"
You don’t backshift I came in the before clause:
Direct: She asked me, “Where were you living before you came to
England?”
Indirect: She asked me where I had been living before I came to
England. (...
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How to change into indirect speech " She said to me, Where were you living before you came here?"
In careful speech, you'd say She asked me where I'd been living before I came there, but many people would say She asked me where I was living before I came there, as we often do not bother with past ...
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Indirect narration
There isn't necessarily just one way to make speech indirect.
The most obvious way to me is:
He wished John a good morning.
Without the article I would be inclined to consider it direct speech and ...
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