These kinds of sentences are used when someone need report with another person has said in the past.
Direct Speech - uses quotations to repeat exactly what someone said.
For exemplo: Lula said, "Dilma was my worst mistake"
Indirect Speech - Lula said that Dilma had been his worst mistake.
To change from DS to IS it is nECESSARY TO change verb tense and another key words.
Verbs from:
simple presente to simple past
simple past to past perfect
present perfect to past perfect
past perfect does not change
Subject to Pronoun
Change time words (important to verify to rewrite in correct time), for exemplo
DS - CHANGE "TODAY" to that day (when the speech occured), etc.
Modals
will to would
can to could
may to might
must to had to
And words that meaning (not clear) a unnamed place:
here / this change to there / that
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