Choose the option that is the indirect form of the sentence.
“We are going to Tirupati next week,” Deepa told her friends.

Correct option is D

The correct indirect form of the sentence "We are going to Tirupati next week," Deepa told her friends is "Deepa told her friends that they were going to Tirupati the following week."
Direct speech- Direct speech, also known as quoted speech or direct quotation, is a way of reporting someone's exact words.
Indirect speech- Indirect speech, also known as reported speech or indirect quotation, is a way of reporting someone's words or thoughts indirectly, without using their exact words.
· This transformation correctly changes "we" to "they" to reflect the perspective shift from direct to reported speech. The tense changes from present continuous to past continuous, and "next week" is adjusted to "the following week" to align with the temporal shift.
· Example: Mike informed his family that they were visiting the museum the following day, similarly shifting the temporal context in reported speech.
· Other options:
· (a) Deepa told her friends that they will go to Tirupati next week incorrectly uses the future tense.
· (b) Deepa told to her friends that she is going to Tirupati following week has a grammatical mistake with "told to" and tense inconsistency.
· (c) Deepa told her friends that we were going to Tirupati the following week incorrectly retains the first-person pronoun.