“I wished I would have a new house”
=> She said… (reported speech)
=> She said she had wished she would have a new house
My questions:
In my original sentence, the wish-clause is kept intact (type 1) though the verb “wish” in the main clause is in past tense. So is it correct?
When I change it into reported speech, I use the verb “wish” in past participle (because it refers to an earlier action), but the wish-clause is still kept in tact, and is it correct, too?
I think I’ve known about that way of transforming the sentence: wish + to V. However here I just want to ask about the way of transforming it without changing the structure: wish + that…
Thanks a lot, everybody
I think now I understand that all tense in the wish-clause must be kept in tact in reported speeches. However, as for “the “saying” and the “wishing” are in the same tense”, is this a fixed rule (thus we never say "She said she wished she had a new house)? Or does it depend on the situation?
Please have a look at this situation:
Yesterday Mary came to visit John and on chatting, she said: “In the past, I wished I had a new house”. Today John meets Jack and he says “Yesterday, Mary said she had wished/wished she had a new house (in the past)”
So, in this situation, the “saying” and the “wishing” are not in the same tense, aren’t they?
I think you have to change direct to indirect speech mindful of the situation in which the direct speech is delivered. In your example I would say something like: Mary said in the past she used to wish … In my earlier reply when I said the ‘saying’ and the ‘wishing’ are contemporaneous, I was assuming that when she said what she said it was the same as saying she wished.
