Q-2 Read the dialogues and complete the passage Renu: Can I help you? I have plenty of spare time. Ajay: Sure you can. I have a problem in solving this sum which is very difficult. Renu: See, there are two ways to solve it. One is easy and the other is difficult. Renu asked Ajay a)………………………….. .b) Ajay, replying affirmatively, said she could surely as …………………………. Renu replied that c)……………………………. .
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The incomplete passage is basically a reported version of the conversation between Renu and Ajay. Therefore, in order to complete the passage, the dialogues need to be changed from direct to indirect speech.
Renu asked Ajay a)if she could help him, since she had plenty of spare time. b) Ajay, replying affirmatively, said she could surely as he was having problems solving a sum which was very difficult. Renu replied that c) there were two ways of solving it- one was easy and the other difficult.
The given blanks are Direct and Indirect Speech exercise. The dialogue between Renu and Ajay is Direct Speech, and the blanks following it are Indirect Speech. It should be done as shown below:
Renu asked Ajay a) if she could him as she had plenty of spare time. Ajay, replying affirmatively, said b) she could surely as he had problem in solving that sum which was very difficult. Renu replied that c) there were two ways to solve the sum. One was easy and the other was difficult.