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Reported speech · CEFR B2 · Confident
Each tense moves one step into the past — except when what was said is still true, where good speakers often leave it alone.
The shape
is → was · did → had done · will → would
Move every tense back by one, and know when not to.
In Hindi
हर काल एक क़दम पीछे जाता है — पर अगर बात अब भी सच हो, तो अक्सर उसे वैसा ही रखा जाता है।
CoCap explains every structure in both languages, because a rule you understand in Hindi is a rule you can use in English.
The sentence Indian-English speakers actually produce, and the reason it is wrong.
| Commonly said | Correct English |
|---|---|
She said she will call me. | She said she would call me. After a past reporting verb, "will" becomes "would". |
These come first. The rest of this makes more sense once they are automatic.
Where this structure sits in the ladder, and what surrounds it.
When the tense steps back is a CEFR B2 structure — the confident band — and it belongs to reported speech. CoCap’s syllabus files every structure this way so you can learn in order instead of jumping between whatever a search happened to return.
CoCap turns this page into practice: Hindi sentence in, English sentence out, corrected one thing at a time. Free, no card.
Practise the when the tense steps back →