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Question : Select the most appropriate indirect form of the given sentence.

She said, “I am going home tomorrow.”

Option 1: She said that she was going home tomorrow.

Option 2: She said that she is going home the next day.

Option 3: She said that she was going home the next day.

Option 4: She said that I was going home the next day.


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Correct Answer: She said that she was going home the next day.


Solution : The correct choice is the third option .

Narration Conversion:

  • That is used to introduce the reported clause.
  • The first-person pronoun (I) is changed to the third-person pronoun (she) .
  • The auxiliary verb am is changed to the past tense was , as the simple present tense is changed to the simple past tense.
  • Tomorrow is changed to the next day in the reported speech.
  • Quotation marks are removed.

Therefore, the sentence in indirect speech is: She said that she was going home the next day.

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