By Learn English, Direct speech

Dear all, I am very much interested to learn english.i am eagerly to know how to use direct & indeirct speeches. I am speaking myself , eventhough I need examples.i want to become a commentator. so that , I am trying to speak my best. Then, i need conjunctions sentences,i...

If we use passive voice, we don't have to change it in reported speech. Am I right? JTT: That's right. Sounds your books are telling merely that some native speakers don't do always the tense backshift in direct-to-indirect speech conversion. But I don't take it as that those books are saying...