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Write the following dialogue from the story in the Indirect Speech. Under a bridge, two little boys were lying close together to keep warm.‘We are so hungry!’ they said. ‘You cannot lie there!

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Write the following dialogue from the story in the Indirect Speech.

Under a bridge, two little boys were lying close together to keep warm.
‘We are so hungry!’ they said. ‘You cannot lie there!’ shouted a guard.

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Under a bridge, two little boys were lying close together to keep warm They sadly remarked that they were very hungry A guard shouted at them and told them that they could not lie there.

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Chapter 2.5: The Happy Prince - English workshop [Page 52]

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