Indirect Speech for Past Perfect Tense

Indirect Speech for Past Perfect Tense:

In the Direct and Indirect Speech, we change the tense and the Helping Verbs of the Direct Speech whenever we convert it to the Reported (Indirect) Speech.
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If the Reported speech is in the Past Perfect tense, the Indirect Speech will also remain in the Past perfect tense and the helping verbs will also not change, it means when we convert the Direct Speech of the Past perfect tense to Indirect (reported) Speech the tense of the sentence will change into the Past perfect tense which means no changes to the tense and helping verb.

For Example:

Direct Speech: They Said. "We had purchased the New English Grammar Magazine".

Reported/Indirect Speech: They said that they had purchased the new English Grammar Magazine.

Direct Speech: She said, "we had won all the Qualifier matches in the inter-school football Competition".

Reported/Indirect Speech: She said that they had won all the Qualifier matches in the inter-school football Competition.

Direct Speech: He said, " I had visited the New international Rugby ground this month".

Reported/Indirect Speech: He said that he had visited the new international rugby ground this month.

Direct Speech: Zedd said to me, "I had not learned the Indirect Speech for Past perfect tense".

Reported/Indirect Speech: Zedd said to me that he had not learned the Indirect speech for past perfect tense.

Direct Speech: He said, "They had answered All the English grammar Questions frequently".

Reported/Indirect Speech: He said that they had answered all the English Grammar Questions frequently.

Direct Speech: She said, "He had sent me a mail about his English Teaching experience".

Reported/Indirect Speech: She said that he had sent me a mail about his English teaching experience.

Direct Speech: He said, "I had started a new rice shop".

Indirect Speech: He said that he had started a new rice shop.
So this was the Indirect speech for Past perfect tense, we learn how to convert past perfect tense sentences to indirect.