Question

The teacher said the sun is a star
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Answer 1

Question :

The teacher said, " The Sun is a star ."

[ Change the mode of narration ]

Answer :

The teacher said that the Sun is a star.

Explanation :

If the reported speech relates to some universal truth or habitual fact, the simple present tense in reported speech remains unchanged.

▪Knowledge Booster :-

There are two types of speeches ----

1. Direct speech or Direct narration

2. Indirect speech or Indirect narration

1. Direct speech :-

What a man says is kept as it is within a quotation (" ") marks. A sentence containing such a quote is called the DIRECT SPEECH or DIRECT NARRATION.

➩ The direct speech is always enclosed with inverted commas (" ")

➩ There is no change in words.

Example : I said to you, " You lied ."

2. Indirect speech :-

Sometimes the exact speech of a speaker is not repeated but reported. Such a speech is called INDIRECT SPEECH or INDIRECT NARRATION.

➩ We change a sentence in indirect speech without using first person's actual words.

➩ This is also known as reported speech.

➩ We change it into the past tense.

Example : I told you that you had lied.

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Answer 2

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The teacher said that the sun is a star.