By Simple present, Direct speech

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,...

Uh-oh! This is a difficult question! I lost a lot of time trying to understand how to use conditional sentences in reported speech, and in the end I didn't even understand completely! However, let's see if I can explain what I think: He thought his mother would understand why he was living...

Hi, Im not a guru here, but I still would like to join you in this.While I was waiting in line, the woman ahead of me asked if I'd heard about the president's being shot. (past progessive. Action in progress at specific past time & second action interrupted it.) I told her she must/ might be...

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...

Hi, When the reporting verb is simple present, present perfect, or future, the noun clause verb is not changed. I think this rule needs to explain 'changed from what'? Any tense that she uses in her direct speech? In other words, I think you have to look at the direct speech to...

Hi, When the reporting verb is simple present, present perfect, or future, the noun clause verb is not changed. I think this rule needs to explain 'changed from what'? Any tense that she uses in her direct speech? In other words, I think you have to look at the direct speech to...

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 can put them most anywhere, SFB. The reporting clause ('he said', etc.) can go at the beginning, at the end, or in the middle of the direct speech, and the subject and verb can be reversed in the simple present or past tenses.

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...