Question

Fill in the blank with the most suitable option:
She said “I’d love to come”.
She said _____ to come.
A) That she’d loved
B) That I’d love
C) That she’d love
D) That I’d loved

Answer 1

Hint: Speech describes how the word functions in meaning as well as grammatically in the sentence. There are eight parts of speech in the English language and they are: Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction and interjection.

Complete step by step answer:
We will use direct and indirect speech. Direct speech repeats or quotes the exact spoken words. And indirect speech is usually used to talk about the past, so we normally change the tenses of the words spoken. In the answer pronouns and adjectives: change from first or second person to the third person except when the person is reporting his own words. Thus, conversion of direct to indirect speech.
Option A) That she’d loved – is an incorrect answer because loved cannot be used here in the answer because ‘loved’ shows the past tense and we have to give the answer in the same tense but in indirect form. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
Option B) That I’d love – is an incorrect answer because we have to convert direct speech into indirect speech and we have to convert ‘I’ into ‘she’. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
Option C) That she’d love – is the correct answer because ‘I’ is converted into ‘she’. Thus, this is the most appropriate answer.
Option D)That I’d loved - is an incorrect answer because loved cannot be used here in the answer because ‘loved’ shows the past tense and we have to give an answer in the same tense but in indirect form and ‘I’ cannot be used while representing indirect speech. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
She said “I’d love to come”.
She said that she’d love to come.

Note:
In such questions where to convert direct speech into indirect speech we cannot use ‘I’ or “loved’. When we use he said, they said, he said, she says, he says before the statement of a person in a sentence is called reporting verbs.