Select the correct direct form of the given sentence.
Professor told me that I could not rescue myself from that bait.
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is option 4 i.e. Professor said to me, “You cannot rescue yourself from this bait.”
- The reporting verb and the reporting speech in the given sentence is in simple past tense.
- Clearly, on conversion, the speech will be changed into the 'simple present tense'.
- The structure of the indirect form of the given sentence is: Subject + reporting verb + object + that + reported speech (Simple past tense).
- The structure of the direct form of the given sentence will be: Subject + reporting verb + Object + reported speech (Simple present tense).
- Also, in the direct speech, the reporting verb will change into 'said to'.
Thus, the correct direct form of the given sentence would be:
Professor said to me, “You cannot rescue yourself from this bait.”