Reported Speech - How to do it -1- statement

OK, after trying to teach you "Reported Speech" for 3 weeks, I'll try to do it again - this time in my English blog.

statement ('normal' sentence)
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If you have to put direct speech into indirect/reported speech, there are two differences:

1. If the beginning is in present tense ('Harry says'), then there is no time-shift and the tense of the direct speech stays the same in indirect/reported speech.
 
example:
direct speech: Harry: "I live at home."
indirect speech: Harry says that he lives at home.

2. If the beginning is in past tense ('Harry said'), then there is a time-shift and the tense of the direct speech is NOT the same as in indirect/reported speech.


example:
direct speech: Harry: "I live at home."
indirect speech: Harry said that he lived at home.


The time-shift is as follows:

shift in tense
from	to
Present Simple	Past Simple
Past Simple	Past Perfect
Present Perfect
Past Perfect
will	would
progressive forms
am/are/is	was/were
was/were	had been
has/have been
had been

example

shift in tense
from	to
Harry: "I live at home."	Harry said that he lived at home.
Harry: "I lived at home."	Harry said that he had lived at home.
Harry: "I have lived at home."
Harry: "I had lived at home."
Harry: "I will live at home."	Harry said that he would live at home.
progressive forms
Harry: "I am living at home."	Harry said that he was living at home.
Harry: "I was living at home."	Harry said that he had been living at home.
Harry: "I have been living at home."
Harry: "I had been living at home."

If there are time words, e.g. yesterday, you have to change them as well.

example:
Harry: "I was at home yesterday."
Harry said that he had been at home the day before.

List of changes

this (evening)	that (evening)
today/this day	that day
these (days)	those (days)
now	then
(a week) ago	(a week) before
last weekend	the weekend before / the previous weekend
here	there
next (week)	the following (week)
tomorrow	the next/following day