Choose the correct indirect (reported) speech: She said, “Where are you going?”

When reporting a question, the reporting verb changes to "asked," and the word order of the reported clause changes from question form to statement form (subject + verb). Additionally, tenses shift backward. The original question, "Where are you going?" is in the present continuous tense.

• C: She asked where I was going is correct. "Asked" is used for the question, the tense shifts from present continuous ("are going") to past continuous ("was going"), and the word order is correctly inverted to a statement form ("I was going" instead of "was I going"). The pronoun "you" also correctly changes to "I."
• A: She asked where I am going is incorrect because the tense "am going" (present continuous) does not shift backward to past continuous.
• B: She asked where was I going is incorrect because it maintains the question word order ("was I") instead of converting it to a statement word order ("I was").
• D: She said where I was going is incorrect because "said" is not the appropriate reporting verb for a question; "asked" should be used.