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Reported speech exercises hard10/28/2023 So for example, there is nothing at all that I can see that is wrong with the construction “the professor said that you are smart”. The back-step, if made, is almost always in the context of some other point that the speaker wants to stress. Her position was the same as yours, that there is always a back-step in tense in reporting, however I do not believe that this is a universal truth. Hi Rebecca, I came across your videos because I was looking for reported speech in Spanish and was curious because I had just had a minor disagreement with my Venezuelan-born teacher over how English reported speech is constructed.
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