A sentence is provided in direct speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding indirect speech. He said, “I am not feeling well today.”
He said he was not feeling well that day.
With a past reporting verb (said), three changes are made: the pronoun "I" becomes "he", the present continuous "am not feeling" shifts back to the past continuous "was not feeling", and the time word "today" becomes "that day".
Applying all three gives: "He said he was not feeling well that day."
"He said he is not feeling well today" changes neither tense nor time word. "He said that I was not feeling well today" keeps the pronoun "I" and "today". "He told that he not feeling well" misses the auxiliary verb and uses "told" without an object.
Hence, the indirect speech is "He said he was not feeling well that day."
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