Direct and Reported Speech

It is a typical situation when you have to retell other people's statements in a conversation. How to say it in English? During the Grammar club at Window on America in Kherson, we trained reported sentences. The difficulties for those who study English are the rules of Sequence of tenses in complex sentences. First, it was difficult enough to construct reported sentences because we have to consider many factors. We have to think about the change of the words' order in a sentence, what tenses should be used, and so on. However, everyone understood the topic, made several exercises, and practiced changing the direct speech of the interlocutor to the reported one.