Reported Speech: Verb Tense Changes
* The verb in Reported / Indirect Speech is "further" back in time: e.g.
He said: "I hate you!" →
He said that he hated her.→
They said: "We loved eachother once." →
They said that they had loved eachother once
He stated: "There has always been love between them."
He stated that there had always been love between them.