Select the option that expresses the given sentence in direct voice. The student told his friend that he had to go home that day because he had been feeling unwell since the day before, and his parents were waiting for him.
“I have to go home today because I was feeling unwell since yesterday, and my parents are waiting for me,” the student said to his friend.
The given sentence is in indirect (reported) speech, and the task is to convert it back into direct speech, restoring the speaker’s exact words within quotation marks.
When moving from reported to direct speech, the backshifted tenses are pulled forward, so a past form in the report usually returns to the present in the quotation.
Time and place words also shift back: 'that day' becomes 'today', and 'the day before' becomes 'yesterday'.
The reporting clause changes from 'told his friend that' to a direct quotation followed by 'the student said to his friend'.
'He had to go home that day' becomes 'I have to go home today', and the pronoun 'he' returns to the first person 'I'.
'His parents were waiting for him' becomes 'my parents are waiting for me', converting the pronouns to the speaker’s viewpoint.
These changes together give the quotation in option 1, which correctly restores present tense, the adverb 'today', and first-person pronouns.
Options 2, 3 and 4 keep backshifted past tenses like 'was waiting' or use 'must', so they do not fully convert the sentence into natural direct speech.
The correct direct-speech version is “I have to go home today because I was feeling unwell since yesterday, and my parents are waiting for me,” the student said to his friend.
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