Select the correctly reported form of the sentence: "The teacher said, 'Let us begin the discussion immediately.'"
The teacher suggested that they should begin the discussion immediately.
Direct speech beginning with "Let us" expresses a proposal or suggestion, and the standard rule for converting such sentences into indirect speech is to change the reporting verb to "suggested" and use "should" before the base verb.
"The teacher suggested that they should begin the discussion immediately" correctly applies this rule, changing "let us" to "suggested that...should," and "us" to "they" to match the third-person reporting context.
"Said that let them begin" retains the imperative "let," which is invalid in reported speech, "requested" implies a request rather than a suggestion, and "ordered them that they begin" uses an incorrect reporting structure for a proposal.
Therefore, "The teacher suggested that they should begin the discussion immediately" is the correctly reported form.
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