Select the option that expresses the given sentence in Direct to Indirect Speech.
She said, "My parents are visiting next week."
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
Conversion from direct speech to indirect speech:
Reporting Verb: Since "said" is in the past tense, the tense of the verbs inside the quotation marks must change.
Pronoun Change: The first-person possessive pronoun "My" changes to the third-person "her" to match the subject ("She").
Tense Change: The present continuous "are visiting" changes to the past continuous "were visiting."
Time Expression Change: In indirect speech, "next week" is typically changed to "the following week" or "the next week" to maintain the correct relative timeframe.
Indirect speech: She said that her parents were visiting the following week.