Question
Select the option that expresses the given sentence in
direct speech. The teacher told the students to complete their homework before the deadline.Solution
Option (b) expresses the given sentence in direct speech. In direct speech, we convey the message of the speaker in his own actual words without any change to another person. Direct speech repeats, or quotes, the exact words spoken. When we use direct speech in writing, we place the words spoken between quotation marks (" ") and there is no change in these words. In given option Complete your homework before the deadline becomes the subject and teacher says to the students become object. We use your in place of their and no change in the tense of the sentence.
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