ABSTRACT
The following pages might have found their place in ch. XI on Tenses in Indirect Speech, or else in ch. XV—XX on the two auxiliaries, but it has been thought more expedient to place them here in a separate chapter on account of the special complications arising from the fact that we have here shifting not only of tense, but of person as well (cf. PG 219, 292). The general tendency is to use the auxiliary which would have been used in direct speech; but sometimes the verb is made to conform to the person into which the original subject has been shifted, especially if the verb of saying is at some distance, so that the shifting is not clearly present to the mind. Will here, as elsewhere, tends to take the place of shall.
