Select the most appropriate direct form of the given sentence.
The officer told me that I needed to work harder to meet my targets otherwise I would have to leave the company.
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is option 4, i.e. The officer said to me, “You need to work harder to meet your targets otherwise you will have to leave the company.”
- This option is correct because firstly it uses the second person perspective to indicate a similar sense as made by the given question. Secondly, the corresponding present tense of the action is used in the direct speech. When we convert from indirect to direct speech, if the tense portrayed in the indirect speech is in it's past form then it is necessary to use the corresponding present tense to denote an identical meaning/sense in the direct form of speech.