By Indirect speech, Simple present

Let us recast the sentence in direct speech, that is, you are speaking to Mark, "When you arrive (simple present tense is most suitable here - I wonder you can use any other tense), we shall/will go out for dinner."When you turn that into an indirect speech, the sentence will become,...

So, as long as there is something discovered in the past and refered to a permanent truth, it still can be used with simple present tense. This reminds me of another sentence I found in my textbook regarding "indirect speech". Please see the following sentence. He said he will come on the...

Sir, I am a bit confused that how simple past in reported indirect speech gets converted to present perfect tense (not to simple present) in reported direct speech in, St. Patrick said, "All the snakes have been driven out of Ireland, and they have swum to England".

You've hit upon one of the correct guidelines: universals remain in the 'simple present' in indirect speech; so can, generally, any condition which has not changed since the original speech.

I don't really understand the question either... Konstantin, you're referring to the Conditional with your German example. Indirect speech in German works differently as the Conjunctive has to be used in formal German, which however, can be replaced by the Conditional (would+infinitive). In...

>We told Sharon that her comments didn't really relate to the key issues at hand. is correct. I think, the direct speech sentence is in simple present: "Your comments don't relate to the key issues." When the "introduction"part of a sentence in indirect speech is in a past tense form (here:...

To keep up the actual aim of the thread: Another problem that I had while learning English was the backshift of tenses in Indirect Speech. While in German you would always use the subjunctive when you want to express something in Indirect Speech, in English you've to backshift every tense. This...