Select the option that expresses the given sentence in direct speech.
The teacher ordered the students to go straight to their classrooms.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 1 i.e. “Go straight to your classrooms", the teacher said to the students.
The given sentence is in indirect speech, to convert this sentence into direct speech we need to follow the following points:
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The comma and inverted commas will be added.
- If the sentence entails indirect commands, requests, advice, i.e. the sentence is imperative, the reporting verb will be changed to 'said' in the direct speech and the conjunction 'to' will be used.
- Next, the third-person pronoun 'their' will be changed into the second person pronoun 'your'.
After following these steps, we got the direct speech as: “Go straight to your classrooms", the teacher said to the students.
Hence, the correct answer is Option 1 i.e. “Go straight to your classrooms", the teacher said to the students.