Question

The chairman expressed the hope that all those present at the meeting had spent a pleasant and a profitable evening.Turn to direct speech.

Answer 1

Answer:

The Chairman said, "I hope all the people present in the meeting spent a pleasant and profitable evening."

Answer 2

Here is the correct answer:

The chairman said, "I hope all these present at the meeting have spent a pleasant and a profitable evening."

Explanation

This sentence was a statement. When we change the narration of a simple statement, we do the following changes in the given sentence:

1. We connect reporting verb clause with quoted speech (direct speech) using 'that'

2. We change the tense of the quoted speech into the past tense.

3. We change the pronouns according to the subject and object.

Since this sentence was already an indirect speech, we would use all the rules in reverse order.