Worked Examples: Direct to Indirect
Every conversion follows the same four moves. Read the quoted sentence. Choose the reporting verb from what the speaker was doing: said for a statement, told or ordered for a command, requested for a request, advised for advice, forbade for a prohibition. Shift the tense one step back if the reporting verb is past. Swap the pronouns and the time words to the reporter's point of view.
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