Reported Speech & Direct Speech
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Are you confident talking about what someone said in the past?
This is called 'reported speech'.
It is a very important, but sometimes confusing, part of English.

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Reported Speech & Direct Speech
(Advanced)

Are you confident talking about what someone said in the past?
This is called 'reported speech'.
It is a very important, but sometimes confusing, part of English.

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And everyone at the Prancing Pony might have believed him if he hadn't disappeared!

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I know

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He said that their business is their own.
"is their own" because we can assume that it IS [still] their own after having said so.

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Why using "was" if it's meant in the past and now they don't own... or I'm wrong