Choose the correct indirect speech for: "He said, 'I am going to the store.'"
Question and options
Choose the correct indirect speech for:
"He said, 'I am going to the store.'"
"He said, 'I am going to the store.'"
- He said that he is going to the store
- He said that he was going to the store
- He said he will go to the store
- He said that he going to the store
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B - He said that he was going to the store
After a past reporting verb, 'am going' moves back to 'was going' and 'I' becomes 'he': He said that he was going to the store. Keeping 'is going' or switching to 'will go' ignores the backshift of tense.
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