Q23
EnglishVoice, Narration & Sentence Transformation
Choose the option that correctly changes the following sentence into indirect speech - He said, "I will go there tomorrow."
- a.He said that I will go there tomorrow.
- b.He told that he shall go there tomorrow.
- c.He said that he will go there after today.
- d.He said that he would go there the next day.
Answer: (D) He said that he would go there the next day.
In indirect speech after a past reporting verb, the pronoun changes to suit the speaker (I → he), "will" back-shifts to "would", and "tomorrow" becomes "the next day" (or "the following day"): He said that he would go there the next day. Option (A) leaves the pronoun unchanged, (B) uses "told" without an object and keeps "shall", and (C) does not back-shift the tense. Other standard changes: today → that day, yesterday → the previous day, now → then, here → there, this → that, ago → before.