Reported Speech

Reported Speech: it means to report someone else's words, from a direct speech to an indirect speech.
Rule: we conjugate the verb in the sentence in its past tense, and as the tense of the verb changes, we also change the time indicators.
Tense Change

•  Present Simple  becomes  Past Simple
•  Present Perfect   ----------  Past Perfect
•  Present Continuous-------- Past Continuous

                                          
                Examples  
                                                                 - ''Why are you here?''.
       becomes in the reported speech : - He asked me why I was there?
                                                            -  I am  late for the meeting.
                                          becomes :  - She said that she was late for the meeting.
                                                            -"I have been looking for a job since my graduation".
                                         becomes :   - He had been looking for a job since his graduation
Time indicators change

•            Next week becomes the following week
•           Yesterday becomes the day before
•           Today becomes that day
•           The following week becomes the week after
•           This month becomes that month

                     Examples:                  
                                                         - I am vising my mother next week
                                         becomes: - She said that she was visiting her the following week
                                                         -  "Are you making new clients this month?"
                                         becomes: - He  asked if we were making new clients that month.