Select the most appropriate option in direct speech for the sentence:

The principal said to me, "You are in-charge of the admission cell."

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Select the most appropriate option in direct speech for the sentence:

The principal said to me, "You are in-charge of the admission cell."

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**Solution:**

1. The verb "said" is correctly used with the preposition "to" when referring to the indirect object ("me"). Hence, "said to me" is grammatically correct.

2. Option 2 uses "say me," which is incorrect because "say" does not take an indirect object without a preposition.

3. Option 3 uses "said to I," which is incorrect because the object pronoun "me" should be used, not the subject pronoun "I."

4. Option 4 omits the preposition "to" and the quotation marks are missing, making it grammatically incorrect.

Therefore, option 1 is the correct and properly punctuated direct speech sentence.

**Answer:** The principal said to me, “You are in-charge of the admission cell.”

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