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Select the correct direct form of the given sentence.

Professor told me that I could not rescue myself from that bait.

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SSC CGL 2022 Tier-II (Paper 2 JSO) Previous Year Paper (04-Mar-2023)
The correct answer is

Professor said to me, “You cannot rescue yourself from this bait.”

The matching option is: Professor said to me, “You cannot rescue yourself from this bait.” In the conventional reported form, you/yourself becomes I/myself, cannot becomes could not, and this becomes that.

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