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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