Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.
She said to me, “I shall come to meet you tomorrow.”
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is option 4, i.e., “She told me that she would come to meet me the next day.”
In this sentence, we’re converting a direct future tense statement into reported (indirect) speech:
- The original phrase “I shall come to meet you tomorrow.”
- The reporting verb “told” is in the past tense, so “shall” becomes “would”.
- Since “tomorrow” refers to the next day from the reporting standpoint, it changes to “the next day”.
Therefore, the correct transformation is:
She told me that she would come to meet me the next day.
The other options are incorrect because they either misuse the modal tense, retain “tomorrow,” or use the wrong reporting verb form.