Select the option that expresses the given sentence in Direct Speech.
He said that he was playing football.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
Correct Answer: He said, "I am playing football."
Explanation
• Tense change: When converting from indirect to direct speech with a past reporting verb (said), the past continuous tense (was playing) changes back to the present continuous tense (am playing).
• Pronoun change: The third-person subject pronoun he shifts back to the first-person pronoun I to represent the speaker's original words.
• Punctuation: The conjunction that is removed, followed by a comma and inverted commas enclosing the direct statement.