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1). She said, "I was a nurse, not a doctor".2). She said, "I were a nurse, not a doctor".3). She said, "I am a nurse, not a doctor".4). None of the above.

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The correct option is option 3.

Direct speech describes when something is being repeated exactly as it was, usually in between a pair of inverted commas. Indirect speech is a report on what SOMEONE else said or wrote without using that person's exact words.

The GIVEN sentence is in Indirect Speech and needs to be converted to Direct Speech.

There are several rules for doing the same:

1. It is important to use the correct tense of the reporting VERB (said).

2.The conjunctions ‘that, to, if, whether’ must be removed.

3. Quotation marks, question marks, exclamation marks and full STOP must be inserted wherever necessary.

4. A comma must be inserted before the statement.

5. The order of words must be carefully looked at.

6. Pay attention to the correct conjugation of the verbs in the given statement.

Keeping all the above rules into consideration, the correct form of the sentence in Direct Speech WOULD be:

She says, "I am a nurse, not a doctor".



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