Reported Speech

Hello Guys,

Today is 4 September 2017.
It means,

Me : "It's gonna be Autumn soon"
Ashley : She said it was going to be Autumn soon

Note the difference in those sentences?
We change the tense backward in indirect speech, or also called, the reported speech

The reported speech is used to tell what other people said directly to us.

In the sentences above, the direct speech (with quotation) is in future tense (be going to). When we use the indirect speech, the tenses change into past tense (was/were going to)

Now, this what i learned from LearnEnglish from British Council.
For more comprehensive learning of reported speech, you can go and visit the link :

LearnEnglish British Council - Reported Speech 1
LearnEnglish British Council - Reported Speech 2

The summary of tenses change :

Direct speech

Reported Speech
present tense verbsimple past
present continuouspast continuous
present perfect
simple pastpast perfect (note : past perfect doesn't change)		past perfect
simple future (will)would
future (be going to)was/were going to
modals:
can
may (possibility)
may (permission)
will
might
must
have to
should
ought to
shallshall
could
might
could
would
might
had to
had to
should
ought to
would (future)should (ask for advice)

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