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Option 3 : The teacher forbade the students to pluck the flowers.
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सही उत्तर The teacher forbade the students to pluck the flowers. है।
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Choose the correct indirect speech of the sentence: The teacher said to the students, "Do not pluck the flowers."
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The teacher told the students to not pluck the flowers.
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The teacher ordered the students that do not pluck the flowers.
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The teacher forbade the students to pluck the flowers.
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The teacher said to the students that they should not pluck the flowers.
Correct Answer: The teacher forbade the students to pluck the flowers.
A negative imperative is most idiomatically reported with "forbade ... to" — "forbade the students to pluck the flowers". Option (a) splits the infinitive awkwardly, and (b) is ungrammatical.
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