A sentence is provided in direct speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding indirect speech. She said, “If only I hadn’t trusted him!”
She said that she wished she hadn’t trusted him.
"If only ...!" is an exclamation expressing a wish or regret about the past. In indirect speech, an exclamatory wish is reported with a verb like wished, and the exclamation mark is dropped.
The past perfect "hadn't trusted" refers to a past action and stays the same; "I" becomes "she". So the indirect form is "She said that she wished she hadn’t trusted him."
"She had regret that she had trusted him" is a paraphrase that does not report the wish. "She said if only she hadn’t trusted him" keeps the exclamatory "if only" form. "She wished she didn’t trust him" changes the regret about a past action into a present situation.
Hence, the indirect speech is "She said that she wished she hadn’t trusted him."
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