Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech. "I will meet you at the park tomorrow," she said.
She said that she would meet me at the park the following day.
Three changes are needed because the reporting verb said is in the past, and each option here neglects at least one of them.
1. Pronouns. I becomes she, and you becomes me — the speaker was addressing the very person now reporting the words.
2. Modal backshift. Will becomes would.
3. Time expression. Tomorrow becomes the following day (or the next day), because the moment of reporting is no longer the moment of speaking.
That gives ‘She said that she would meet me at the park the following day.’
Checking the others:
‘She says that she will meet me at the park tomorrow.’ — changes the reporting verb to the present and applies no shifts at all.
‘She said that she will meet me at the park following day.’ — leaves will unshifted and drops the article before following day.
‘She says that she would meet me at the park tomorrow.’ — mixes a present reporting verb with a backshifted modal and an unshifted time word: internally inconsistent.
Time-word shifts to remember: today → that day, tonight → that night, yesterday → the previous day, next week → the following week.
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