Reported speech question

Before looking at this in Reported Speech, what is wrong with the tenses and conjunction in your sentence?

Hello Terryxpress,

sorry, I don't really understand what you mean. Is there something wrong with the sentence?
If so, then maybe you could enlighten me what's wrong with it?

I just wondered about the tense shift, which one would be correct.

Or maybe for another try:

She said, "There had been plenty of food in the fridge when I left."

Would it be bet

What do you think the conjunction 'when' means in all of your sentences?

I think it means "at the given moment" or "at that time".

So then, pictorially, we have:

......<........................party going on (say)...............................................>|
......<..................F.............................L.|<
Where F = fight (had been a fight)
and L= left (I left)

So - how does 'at the given moment' or 'at that time" relate to the

Hmm, do you mean it would be better to put it this way:

Tom said, "There was a fight going on when I left."
Or:
Tom said, "There had been a fight before I left."

because it could not have happened at the same time when used with "had been"?

YES
or
"There had been a fight by the time I left."
Tom said there had been a fight by the time he had left.

Fine.

So, if the given sentence was:

Tom said, "There had been a fight before I left."

Which reported speech would be better:

Tom said that there had been a fight before he left.
or:
Tom said that there had been a fight before he had left.

I added more to my previous post.

Okay, thanks for your answers and explanations!

Best wishes

Anna