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Suggest two measures to increase the number of birds.
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You mush have noticed that when we report someone’s exact words, we have to make some changes in the sentence structure. In the following sentences fill in the blanks to list the changes that have occurred in the above pairs of sentences. One has been done for you.
1. To report a question, we use the reporting verb asked (as in Sentence Set 1).
2. To report a declaration, we use the reporting verb __________.
3. The adverb of place here changes to ___________.
4. When the verb in direct speech is in the present tense, the verb in reported speech is in the ______________ tense (as in Sentence Set 3).
5. If the verb in direct speech is in the present continuous tense, the verb in reported speech changes to ______________tense. For example, ____________ changes to was getting.
6. When the sentence in direct speech contains a word denoting respect, we add the adverb _______________in the reporting clause (as in Sentence Set 1).
7. The pronouns I, me, our and mine, which are used in the first person in direct speech, change to third person pronouns such as____________, ___________, ___________ or __________in reported speech.
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Why is Mrs Pumphrey worried about Tricki?
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What does she do to help him? Is she wise in this?
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Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?
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Is the narrator as rich as Tricki’s mistress?
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How does he treat the dog?
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Why is he tempted to keep Tricki on as a permanent guest?
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Why does Mrs. Pumphrey think the dog’s recovery is “a triumph of surgery”?
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What kind of a person do you think the narrator, a veterinary surgeon, is? Would you say he is tactful as well as full of common sense?
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Do you think Tricki was happy to go home? What do you think will happen now?
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Do you think this is a real-life episode, or mere fiction? Or is it a mixture of both?
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Who does ‘I’ refer to in this story?
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What is he “a fairly successful hand” at?
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What does he get from Anil in return for his work?
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How does the thief think Anil will react to the theft?
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What does he say about the different reactions of people when they are robbed?
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Does Anil realize that he has been robbed?
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What are Hari Singh’s reactions to the prospect of receiving an education? Do they change over time? (Hint: compare, for example, the thought: “I knew that once I could write like an educated man there would be no limit to what I could achieve” with these later thoughts: ‘Whole sentences, I knew, cloud one day bring me more than a few hundred rupees. It was a simple matter to steal − and sometimes just as simple to be caught. But to be a really big man, a clever and respected man, was something else.”) What makes him return to Anil?
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Why does not Anil hand the thief over to the police? Do you think most people would have done so? In what ways is Anil different from such employers?
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