What is reported speech?
“Reported speech” is when we talk about what somebody else said:
• Direct Speech: “I’ve been to London three times.”
• Reported Speech (Indirect Speech): She said she’d been to London three times.


We often use “reported speech” when talking about a conversation that happened in the past. There are some changes to the verbs with reported speech; read the table to find out how each verb tense changes: