Reported Speech

We use reported speech to tell (= report) someone what another person says or said.

There are two ways of reporting something:

* Up-to-date reporting (we report something a short time after it was said, so we use the present form of the reporting verb;

there is no tense change)

* Off-date-reporting (we report something a long time after it was said, so we use the past form of the reporting verb;