were leaving/ would leave

[dewedfrost]

Hello! Can you help me, please? It's about reported speech; look at the following:
She said, "They are leaving for the USA tomorrow".
If I had to turn it into reported speech, I'd say: She said they were leaving the day after.
According to a rule I've found in an English grammar recently, I should say "She said they would leave for the USA the day after".
That's sounds strange to me! What would you suggest I should say? I've always turned present continuous into past continuous while reporting someone else's words, and I suppose that the form "would leave" is acceptable, but "were leaving" is correct as well!
Thanks a lot in advance!:roll::-?;-)

 

[GoesStation]

Either sentence is OK. I'd say the next day rather than the day after.

 

[GoesStation]

There's yet another possible tense. You could say "She said they would be leaving the next day."

This is a rare case where your choice of tense won't affect the meaning. It might be guided by the context though.

 

[Tarheel]

There's yet another possible tense. You could say "She said they would be leaving the next day."

This is a rare case where your choice of tense won't affect the meaning. It might be guided by the context though.

I prefer this one.

 

[tzfujimino]

Or "... the following day."

 

[Roman55]

Or, 'tomorrow'. You could be reporting the speech the day it was originally spoken.