Direction: Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Q:

Asking me (why was I absent, I was punished by the headmaster).

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  why was I absent, was I punished by the Headmaster.
• 2
  why I was absent, was I punished by the Headmaster.
• 3
  why I was absent, the headmaster punished me.
• 4
  No improvement