M.6 Reported Speech

Tom said he is going to London tomorrow.

Tom said he was going to London tomorrow.

Tom said he will be going to London tomorrow.

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He said he could swim really fast.

He said I could swim really fast.

He said he can swim really fast.

They believed the car was his.

People claimed that nobody could build such a tall building.

It was said that home is where the heart is.

At first, people said that the telephone was a useless invention.

They claimed to have a suitable room in the hotel.

The hotel is thought to have a suitable room inside.

The landlord denied going into the house without the owner's permission.

It is believed that the landlord went inside the house without the owner's permission.