Choose the option that is the indirect form of the sentence.
Kishore said “I’m leaving now.”
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct indirect form of the sentence is:
Kishore said that he was leaving then.
The other options are incorrect:
- Kishore said that he left then. This is incorrect because the reported speech is describing an action that is happening at the same time as the reporting verb, not an action that happened in the past.
- Kishore says that I am leaving now. This is incorrect because the reported speech is in the present tense, but the reporting verb is in the past tense.
- Kishore said that he had to leaving then. This is incorrect because the verb "had to" is not used in indirect speech.