Question

Re-write the following passage in the reported speech.

1) ‘May I come in, sir?’ a boy standing at the door said to him. Then without waiting for his reply the boy entered the room and said, ‘Sir, I have come from Palashpur with a letter from Mr Ajit Bose.’ ‘Ajit Bose? How is he?’ he said smiling. ‘He is not well. He has been suffering from a serious illness for two years,’ the boy said. ‘How sad it is! May God cure him,’ he said.

2) ‘I'll pay for it,’ he said. ‘I broke it, I brought the exe down careless.’ ‘But no one hits accurately every time, Jerry. Moreover, the fault was in the wood of the handle. I’ll see the man who I have bought it from,’ I told him.

3) ‘You look a little bit like my mother,’ he said ‘especially in the dark by the fire.’ ‘But you were only four Jerry, when you came here. You have remembered how she looked all these years?’ ‘My mother lives in Mannville,’ he said.

Answer 1

Answer:

May I come in, sir?’ a boy standing at the door said to him. Then without waiting for his reply the boy entered the room and said, ‘Sir, I have come from Palashpur with a letter from Mr Ajit Bose.’ ‘Ajit Bose? How is he?’ he said smiling. ‘He is not well. He has been suffering from a serious illness for two years,’ the boy said. ‘How sad it is! May God cure him,’ he said.

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