Question

Choose the correct indirect speech:
He said, "I will go to the market tomorrow."

• A. He said he will go to the market tomorrow.
• B. He said that he would go to the market tomorrow.
• C. He said he would go to the market the next day.
• D. He said that he will go to the market the next day.

Hint:

In indirect speech, shift tenses back when the reporting verb is in the past: “will” → “would”, “tomorrow” → “the next day”.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

To convert direct speech to indirect speech, observe the following procedure:

1. Locate the reporting verb: In the given example, this is "He said."
2. Alter the verb tense of the direct speech: The future tense "will go" in direct speech is converted to its past tense equivalent, "would go."
3. Modify temporal adverbs: The direct speech term "tomorrow" is transformed into "the next day" for indirect speech.

Applying these guidelines results in the following indirect speech: He stated that he would proceed to the market on the subsequent day.