Choose the option that is the most appropriate conversion of the following sentence into Direct Speech.
She apologized and confessed that she had taken the documents without permission.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
Correct Answer: She said, "I'm sorry. I had taken the documents without permission."
Explanation
• Reporting Verb: The indirect sentence uses "apologized and confessed". In direct speech, "apologized" is appropriately rendered as "I'm sorry".
• Content of Confession: The reported clause "she had taken the documents without permission" is directly stated as "I had taken the documents without permission", shifting the third-person pronoun she back to the first-person I.
• Other choices either omit the apology entirely, use incorrect verb forms (such as have took), or change the past action into a future promise.