Expression: "She said she was seeing TV"

[Tom]

Hi

(For more feedback and learning I have asked this question somewhere else also—I hope it is not morally wrong)

I am aware that according to the rules of reported speech it should be

[Mister Micawber]

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The 'seeing' is wrong; we 'watch' TV. As for your main question, what is the direct speech?

Posting elsewhere is not morally wrong; the internet is free to all. Personally, I spend much less time and effort answering questions that I find have been posted elsewhere-- that is all.
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[Tom]

[Mister Micawber]

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Well, normally the direct speech is presented as a simple quote: 'She is watching TV.' This is in the present tense, and the report is then: 'She said that she was watching TV.'

However, you have presented an unusual premise: 'She said, "She is watching TV." ' I presume then that the report is 'She said that she had said, "She is watching TV".

How it permutates to 'She said she had been watching TV' is unclear to me, though I can see that that is the intended information.
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[lost_soul]

Hi, MM

I dare say that if the premise is She said "I was watching TV", then it must be transformed into She said that she had been watching TV
On the other hand, if She said "I have been watching TV (for a while)", then She said that she had been watching TV(for a while)

Please, correct me if I'm wrong
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