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He wanted to know where I was born.?
10. Direct = "Where were you born?" he asked me.
Indirect = He wanted to know where I was born.
Source: http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_p...ted-speech....
As you know we change the tense while converting a direct speech into an indirect speech.
I think the blue part should have been "had been". Because the first sentence or the direct sentence has used
simple past. So for indirect speech we should go one step further back which is past perfect (had been).
Aren't I right?
This is the source: http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/gramm...
The above source doesn't work I think.
