Spanish · Chapter 23 · Lesson 3 · Grammar primer
Reported speech: tense backshift
Turning dice que into dijo que: when the reporting verb is past, the present slides to the imperfect, the preterite to the pluperfect, the future to the conditional - plus the pronoun and time shifts, and the obligatory que.
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