Choose the one that correctly represents the sentence in direct speech. Adit explained that he hadn't had the time to prepare his speech the day before.
Adit said, "I didn't have the time to prepare my speech yesterday."
To convert reported speech back to direct speech, we reverse the reporting changes: reporting verb → 'said', and the reported words go inside quotation marks.
Pronoun: 'he' / 'his' (Adit) → 'I' / 'my' in Adit's own words.
Tense: the past perfect 'hadn't had' in reported speech comes from the simple past 'didn't have' in direct speech (the action happened at one point in the past).
Time expression: 'the day before' in reported speech goes back to 'yesterday' in direct speech.
So the direct speech is: Adit said, "I didn't have the time to prepare my speech yesterday."
Hence, the answer is Adit said, "I didn't have the time to prepare my speech yesterday."
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