Question

Choose the correct option to complete the sentence in indirect speech:
Donald said to Micky, “I visited the Golden Mountain yesterday”.
Donald told Micky that ____________ the Golder Mountain the previous day.
A) He had visited
B) He visited
C) He would visit
D) I visited

Answer 1

Hint:Indirect speech the form changes. Indirect speech is introduced by the verb said: Bill said, they said, she said. The main verb in indirect speech is put it in the past.

Complete answer:
Option A) He had visited – is the correct answer because while converting direct into indirect speech the sentence is put in the past. ‘He’ is the personal pronoun for Donald, ‘had’ is used as an auxiliary verb to form the past perfect and the past perfect progressive tense. So, ‘he had visited’ is the correct answer.

Option B) He visited – is an incorrect answer because ‘he visited’ is a simple past tense and we need to fill the blank with the past perfect tense. Thus, the use of ‘he visited’ in the blank is an incorrect choice.

Option C) He would visit – is an incorrect answer because ‘he would visit’ is in a simple past tense and
the meaning of the word ‘would’ is to explain the possibility of something. Thus, this is an incorrect choice in the blank.

Option D) I visited – is an incorrect answer because ‘I visited’ is used to form the sentence in the simple past tense. And the use of I is inappropriate when converting direct speech into indirect speech. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.

Hence, the correct answer is Option ‘A’.

Note:When exact words are used by the speaker that is known as direct speech and when exact words are not used by the speaker that is called indirect speech or reported speech.
General rules for converting direct speech into indirect speech are: Inverted commas and quotation marks should be omitted, end the sentence with the full stop, if the verb inside the commas or quotation mark is in present tense then convert it into it’s corresponding past tense. Thus, Option A satisfies the rule of conversion and this is the correct answer rest options are incorrect.