Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.
She said, “I love to eat pineapple.”
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The most appropriate option to express the given sentence in indirect speech is:
She said that she loved to eat pineapple.
The other options are incorrect:
- She said that she love to eat pineapple. - This is incorrect because the present tense verb "love" is used, but the original sentence is in the past tense.
- She said that I loved to eat pineapple. - This is incorrect because the pronoun "I" refers to the speaker, but the speaker is reporting what someone else said.
- She said that she had loved to eat pineapple. - This is incorrect because the present perfect tense verb "had loved" is used, but the original sentence is in the simple past tense.