Question

The student said the teacher has been punishing me severely in indirect speech

Answer 1

Answer:

the student said to teacher that he had been punishing him severly

Answer 2

The answer will be: The student said that the teacher had been punishing him severely.

Indirect Speech:

• In Direct Speech, a sentence is written in the form where the speaker uses the correct sequence of words as uttered by the same originally.
• To change the form of the sentence from direct to indirect speech, quotation marks are to be removed. Along with that, the sentence is written in indirect form.
• In the given sentence, the word has gets changed to the past form, had to make it an appropriate sentence.

Hence, the correct answer after converting to indirect speech will be: The student said that the teacher had been punishing him severely.

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