Convert the following sentence from Indirect Speech to Direct Speech:…

The correct answer is Option (3) → She said, "The amount of work is unreasonable."

Indirect to direct speech:

Change	Indirect	Direct	Why
Reporting verb	She said that	She said, “ ”	“Said that” becomes “said,” followed by the speaker's words in inverted commas. “That” is dropped.
Tense change	was	is	The past tense of indirect speech goes back to the present: “was” becomes “is”.
Full sentence	She said that the amount of work was unreasonable.	She said, “The amount of work is unreasonable.”

The speaker's own words are kept, and nothing is added or changed in meaning.

Example: He said that the room was cold. → He said, “The room is cold.”

Why the Other Options are Incorrect?

Option 1: She said, "That is an unreasonable amount of work." — Incorrect. It rewords the statement ("That is ...") instead of restoring the words reported.

Option 2: She said, "This is too much work!" — Incorrect. It turns the statement into an exclamation and changes "unreasonable" to "too much".

Option 4: She said, "The amount of work was unreasonable." — Incorrect. The tense is not changed back: in the direct words "was" must become "is".