By Indirect speech, Past simple

Infinik wrote: Viceidol wrote: direct speech: He said, "John is honest." inrect speech: He said that John was honest. I think both sentences are perfectly OK. The second one means that, John was honest at the time of speaking. So it does not imply whether John is honest now or not, we...

Yes, everything is correct I'm absolutely agree with Goldmund. The main point, which one should remember when converting sentences from Direct into Indirect speech is to be very careful with tenses. Converting you make a step back, I mean turn Past Simple into Past Perfect.