Choose the option that is the most appropriate conversion of the following sentence into Direct Speech.
She said that they would have left the town and moved to Pune by the following week.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
Correct Answer: She said, "They will have left the town and moved to Pune by next week."
Explanation
To convert an indirect speech sentence into direct speech, reverse the standard backshift and time/place expression rules.
Modal / Tense change: The future perfect in the past (would have left) changes back to the future perfect tense (will have left) in direct speech.
Time phrase change: The indirect phrase the following week reverts to next week inside inverted commas.
The conjunction that is removed and replaced with a comma and quotation marks.