Select the option that expresses the given sentence in Direct to Indirect Speech.
She said, "How I wish I could meet him once!"

Correct option is C

The correct indirect/ direct speech is (c).
Rules & Explanation (Detailed):
· Exclamatory “How I wish …” is reported as a statement of wish/desire: use that-clause with wished.
· Pronoun change: “I” → she; him remains him (third person).
· Modal: “could” generally remains (already past form of “can” expressing possibility/capability in wish).
· Reporting verb: “said” may remain; “exclaimed” is possible for emotion, but must preserve the structure of wish (not just exclaimed that she could…).
· Why others are incorrect:
· (a) Changes wish to hope + “would,” altering meaning and modality.
· (b) Uses exclaimed but loses the ‘wished’ structure (semantic shift).
· (d) asked is for interrogatives/requests, not wishes, and the clause form is wrong.
· Correct Conversion: She said that she wished she could meet him once.