2) “Do you know the man over there?” Mary said to Tom.
→Mary asked Tom if he knew the man over there.
3) Jim said to me, “Jane left her schoolbag at home.”
→Jim told me that Jane had left her schoolbag at home.
3、间接引语中动词时态的变化。
1）当引述的动词为现在时形式时，间接引语中的动词时态不变。例如：
Tom says, “Our teacher is kind to us.”
→Tom says that their teacher is kind to them.
2）当引述的动词为过去时形式时，间接引语中的动词作如下变更：
一般现在时→一般过去时 过去进行时→不变
一般过去时→过去完成时 将来进行时→过去将来进行时
一般将来时→过去将来时 现在完成时→过去完成时
现在进行时→过去进行时 过去完成时→不变
He said, “I will leave for Beijing tomorrow.”
→He said that he would leave for Beijing the next day.
如果所转述的内容表示客观真理或有表示某一绝对具体的过去时间作状语，间接引语中动词的时态不变。例如：
The teacher said, “The earth is round.”
→The teacher said that the earth is round.
He said, “I was born in 1980.”
→He said that he was born in 1980.
4、直接引语变为间接引语时，指示代词、时间状语、地点状语和表示“方向”动词的变化。
this → that, these → those; now → then, today → that day, tomorrow → the next (following) day, next week → the next week, yesterday → the day before, last night → the night before, ago → before; here → there; come → go.
