The teacher said,"the earth is a unique planet".(direct speech)
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The earth moves around the sun" - it is universal truth so in Indirect Speech, the tense of the sentence be same as in Direct Speech, i.e., in ...
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The teacher said that the earth is a unique planet.
Explanation:
It is a universal truth.Its tense doesn't change in indirect speech.
Now we are going to see that the reported statement of each direct narration is a universal truth, that is a statement universally accepted as true.
We know that the reported speech changes according to the tense of the reporting verb when used in the indirect narration.
But in this case, the reported speech “The earth is a unique planet” is used in the indirect speech without changing its tense.
Universal truth speeches include - any moral principles, natural phenomena, mathematical equation, scientific statement etc.