Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.
The boy said to the teacher, "Sir, I am weak in Maths and seek your advice."
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. The boy told the teacher that he was weak in Maths and sought his advice.
The given sentence is in direct speech. To convert it into indirect speech, we need to follow some rules.
Firstly, we need to change the tense of the reporting verb (said) to match the tense of the reported speech. In this case, the reporting verb is in the past tense, so we need to change it to the past perfect tense (had said).
we need to remove the quotation marks and replace them with the conjunction “that”.
we need to change the pronouns and verb tenses in the reported speech to reflect the fact that it is being reported indirectly.
Hence, the correct answer would be The boy told the teacher that he was weak in maths and sought his advice.