A doubt about " spot the mistake" 's exercise
Hi,
I have completed a " spot the mistake" exercise on my CAE textbook, but i have a doubt about a sentence.
The sentence is : " Our teacher said we were all deserving a great deal of praise for our exam results".
Now the mistake is obviuosly the continuous form " were...deserving" and I corrected it in " we all deserved", but in the " teacher book" i found it corrected " we all deserve" in present simple form.
My doubt is this. If there is an introductory sentence in past simple " our teacher said" it wouldn't be correct to put the rest of the sententence with a past tense, since this is a case of "reported speech"?