Report this:-Don Gonzalo: I want a bench to myself. Juanito: But there is none. Don Gonzalo: That one over there is mine. Juanito: There are three priests sitting there. Don Gonzalo: What are they doing here in the park at this time of the day?
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The reported version of the given dialogue exchange is as follows:-
Don Gonzalo said that he wanted a bench to himself. Juanito replied saying that there was none. Don said that the one over there was his. Juanito said that three priests were sitting there. Don asked what were they doing there in the park at that time of the day.
- direct speech is where the speaker's words are directly quoted.
- For indirect speech or reported speech, the exact words of the speaker are not given. They are said from a third-person perspective.
- if direct speech is in the present tense, indirect speech is in the past tense.
- inverted commas are not used in indirect speech, unlike direct speech.
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