Question : Select the option that expresses the given sentence in direct speech.
The students asked how they would benefit from online classes.
Option 1: The students said, "How will we benefit from online classes?"
Option 2: The students said, "How will they be benefited from online classes?"
Option 3: The students said, "How they will benefit from online classes?"
Option 4: The students said, "How we would benefit from online classes?"
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Correct Answer: The students said, "How will we benefit from online classes?"
Solution : The correct option is the first option.
Direct speech involves directly quoting what someone says within quotation marks. The steps of conversion are as follows:
- The reporting verb "asked" is changed to "said" because the given sentence is an interrogative sentence.
- The statement is converted to a question using the question word how?
- The modal "would" is changed to its present form, "will".
- The third-person pronoun "they" is changed to the first-person pronoun "we".
- The words of the speaker are enclosed in the inverted commas.
Therefore, the sentence in direct speech would be: The students said, "How will we benefit from online classes?."
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