Indirect Speech :
“LOMOV : No, I've come only to see you, honoured Stepan Stepanovitch.
CHUBUKOV: Then why are you in evening dress, my precious ? As if you're paying
a New Year's Eve visit!
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Explanation:
lomov denied and said he had only come to see honoured stepan stepanovitch
chubukov asked the reason for him wearing the evening dress as if he was paying a new year's Eve visit...
Answer:
The given passage can be converted into indirect speech as follows:
Lomov said that he had come only to see Stepan Stepanovitch. Chubukov asked him why he was wearing evening dress, as if he was paying a New Year's Eve visit.
Explanation:
In indirect speech, we report what someone said without using their exact words. We change the tense of the original statement and also make other necessary changes in the sentence structure, pronouns, and time expressions.
In the given passage, the original dialogue is reported in indirect speech by using reporting verbs like "said" and "asked".
The present tense verbs "have" and "was" are changed to past tense "had" and "was wearing" respectively.
The pronouns "I" and "you" are changed to "he" and "him" respectively. The time expression "New Year's Eve" remains unchanged as it is not specific to the time of reporting.
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