Choose the correct indirect (reported) speech for: She said, “I will call you next week.”
AShe said that she will call me next week.
BShe said that she would call me next week.
CShe said that she called me the following week.
DShe said that she would call me the following week.
Explanation
The modal ‘will’ backshifts to ‘would’ when the reporting verb ‘said’ is in the past tense, and the time expression ‘next week’ correctly changes to ‘the following week,’ since it must reflect the passage of time between the original statement and when it is being reported. The pronoun ‘you’ also changes to ‘me,’ since the speaker was addressing the person now doing the reporting. Explore more English MCQs on mcqstutor to keep practicing.
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