What tense to use when reporting something which has never been true or never happened?
11264
"He didn't know where New Jersey was"
73062
Must present perfect tense be used if the action takes place more than once?
143589
How do we use zero conditional and first conditional to talk about things in the past
8043
Verb forms for "any" and "none" — have or has?
17054
Use of "never" in questions
71914
"Didn't use to get" or "Didn't used to get"?
95433
"there doesn't seem" vs. "there don't seem"
74909
"Have you ever had surgery?" Why does surgery in this sentence have no article?
122234
How to choose tenses in story telling?
69510
Do tenses in a time clause never back-shift in reported speech?
42497
How do you say that some time had elapsed?
28026
Can we use "Now" (not until now or until then) in past tense sentences
128541
Something that is impossible but has happened
22
“Was” or “were” in sentence where no noun subject exists
45753
looking word for: current state or the state before a change
148708
How to say that something is (not) random
88753
Examples/references for not changing tense when using reported speech