Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
The teacher said to the students, “Jupiter is the largest planet.”
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. The teacher told the students that Jupiter is the largest planet.
Given sentence: The teacher said to the students, “Jupiter is the largest planet.”
Remove commas and inverted commas and add the conjunction that.
'said to' is changed to 'told.'
As the sentence is a general truth, so, no changes will be made in the tense.
So, the final sentence is:
The teacher told the students that Jupiter is the largest planet.