Choose the correct indirect (reported) speech for: She said, “It may rain today.”

Explanation

The modal ‘may,’ when expressing possibility, backshifts to ‘might’ when the reporting verb ‘said’ is in the past tense, following the same general modal backshifting pattern as ‘can’ becoming ‘could’ and ‘will’ becoming ‘would.’ The time word ‘today’ also correctly changes to ‘that day’ to reflect the later point in time at which the statement is being reported. Explore more English MCQs on mcqstutor to keep practicing.