A sentence is provided in indirect speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding direct speech. He told the volunteers that once the list was finalized, no further changes could be made under any condition.
“No changes can be made once the list is finalized–under any condition,” he said.
To change indirect speech to direct speech, the back-shifted verbs return to their original tense and the reported words are put in quotation marks.
'Could be made' becomes 'can be made', 'was finalized' becomes 'is finalized', and the condition 'under any condition' is kept.
So the direct form is: “No changes can be made once the list is finalized–under any condition,” he said.
The version with 'There will be no changes allowed' alters the structure and drops 'under any condition'; 'you must not make any changes' turns the statement into an order to the volunteers; 'changes might be accepted in rare cases' reverses the meaning.
Hence, “No changes can be made once the list is finalized–under any condition,” he said.
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