By Indirect speech, Past perfect

Hello. Sorry to hear you're feeling uncomfortable with this type of activity. But you're not alone: I would be, too!The sentences lack context, which makes it difficult to tell when tense changes are necessary and when they are not (among other things).There is one sentence that is wrong...

Hi, India has far fewer tigers living in the wild than had been thought, initial results from a major new study suggest. The Wildlife Institute of India census showed tiger numbers falling in some states by two-thirds in five years. A final report is due out in December. India's last major...

India has far fewer tigers living in the wild than had been thought, initial results from a major new study suggest. The Wildlife Institute of India census showed tiger numbers falling in some states by two-thirds in five years. A final report is due out in December. India's last major...

Hi, To write ' Media reports said the priest had complained to the police ...' is correct. This is indirect speech. I don't think this has some past perfect aspects. It seems like past perfect to me. Tense is tense. Do you think that past perfect used with indirect speech is not 'real' past...

Russian authorities are investigating the death of an Orthodox priest and his family in a fire at their home. Russian television reports said Andrei Nikolayev, his wife and three children died when his home in the Tver region was doused in petrol and set on fire. Local police said the...

"I received a letter a year ago from a woman who had been saved by the people of Le Chambon when she was a young girl." This is the only correct formulation (using the past perfect) and this ISN'T reported or indirect speech. It's just the history of the events, what happened first. The...

<"I received a letter a year ago from a woman who (said/wrote/claimed that she) had been saved by the people of Le Chambon when she was a young girl."> It's reported/indirect speech/writing with "said", or another reporting verb, and a pronoun omitted. Don't only focus on the isolated...

While doing some reported/indirect speech stuff (again!) lots of questions has come to my mind. Here are some of them. 1/ 'I never eat meat', (Bill said/explained) -> turns into -> Bill said/explained (that) he never ate meat. - This is the normal way in which most of us would...

Nothing special: ------- In indirect speech, a speaker's present perfect and past tenses are often reported using past perfect tenses (because the events he/she spoke about had happened before she/he spoke, and because the reporters's point of view is not the same as the original...

Peter said he did the painting of the house a couple of days ago. The above is correct. Now Martin will tell us what Peter did. 1.Martin said Peter had done the painting of the house a couple of days ago. Is the above fine? Grammatically speaking, is it a sentence of indirect...