Correct Answer: The secretary says to the audience, “I am going to help you.”

Solution : The correct option is the second option .

Direct speech involves directly quoting what someone says, whereas reported speech conveys the meaning of what someone says without using their exact words.

When converting this to direct speech:

• The introductory phrase the secretary assures the audience will change to the secretary says to the audience .
• The reported speech, that he/she is going to help them , shifts to direct speech marked by, I am going to help you .
• He/she changes to " I" to indicate the first-person perspective of the secretary.
• Tense of the sentence remains unchanged as the reporting verb is in the present tense.

So, the transformed direct speech would be: "The secretary says to the audience, 'I am going to help you."