Dear teacher,
If I want to report the father's story in the situation below:
The father tell a story to his daughter as below:
" long time ago, a child was born to a queen and king and she was called Snow White. When the queen died, the king married again..... "
When I report this in a statement do I need to change all verbs into past perfect as below:
the father told his daughter a story as below:
long time ago, a child had been born to a queen and king and she had been called Snow White. When the queen had died, the king had married again.....
please give me any advice, thanks
TomStudy
further indirect speech
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Re: further indirect speech
No, because the story is not contained in the same sentence.