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Change the following into indirect speech: Mother said, “Sunita, what did you buy from the market?” She said, “I bought a dictionary.”

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Change the following into indirect speech:
Mother said, “Sunita, what did you buy from the market?” She said, “I bought a dictionary.”

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Mother asked Sunita what she had bought from the market. Sunita replied that she had bought a dictionary.
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Direct-Indirect Speech
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2015-2016 (March) Set A

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