Select the option that expresses the given sentence in direct speech. The traffic police told me that I couldn’t park my two-wheeler there.
The traffic police said to me, "You can’t park your two-wheeler here."
The original sentence is in indirect speech. To convert it to direct speech, we need to consider the changes in pronouns and verb tenses. The sentence "The traffic police told me that I couldn’t park my two-wheeler there" indicates that the traffic police addressed the speaker directly. Therefore, the pronoun "I" in the indirect speech needs to change to "you" in the direct speech, reflecting the person being addressed. Additionally, the past continuous tense ("couldn’t park") changes to the present continuous tense ("can’t park") in direct speech to accurately reflect the command given at the time. Finally, "there" changes to "here" to reflect the perspective of the speaker. Option 3 correctly makes all these changes, thus representing the sentence in direct speech accurately.
Option 1 is incorrect because it uses "I" instead of "you," incorrectly reflecting the speaker's perspective. Option 2 is incorrect because, although it uses "you", it retains the past tense "couldn’t", which is grammatically wrong for the direct speech. Option 4 uses the imperative form and changes the sentence structure entirely, which doesn't accurately reflect the original meaning.
Therefore, the correct option is:
3. The traffic police said to me, "You can’t park your two-wheeler here."
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