Grammar

I asked a similar question earlier and got a response from @avangi.

Check this website to learn more about indirect speech - thanks to @avangi

http://www.athabascau.ca/courses/engl/1

Thank you, retsam.

For a long time it had been my practice to change the verb in the speech to past. But I had always carried the doubt why I should not the leave present tense unchanged if idea holds good for the present also. Recently I learnt that it is alright to do so. But I still had the last bit of doubt over it.

And Avangi's reply has reaffirmed it.

vsureshShe said that she no longer likes that park.
Should 'liked' replace 'likes' here?

I don't see any reason to make that replacement unless you are telling the story of something that happened a long time ago. Or unless she's dead now, of course.

CJ

Thank you CalifJim

Now I am quite confident on this concept. Earlier it was like whether I should merely go with the common practice or heed the call of logical reasoning just as you have done now.