Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given sentence. Sumit said, “I will be leaving for London this summer so I can meet you only when I return.”
Sumit said that he would be leaving for London that summer and he could meet me only when he returned.
The reporting verb "said" is past tense, triggering backshift. "I" becomes "he", "you" becomes "me", "will be leaving" becomes would be leaving, "can" becomes "could", "return" becomes "returned", and "this summer" becomes "that summer".
Only Option 1 — Sumit said that he would be leaving for London that summer and he could meet me only when he returned — applies all these changes correctly. The other options retain "will", "this summer", or use a wrong pronoun ("him").
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