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Jane: I am quite sure. Besides, my mother is baking a cream cake, and I want to save
my appetite.

Alex: Jane, you are so lucky to have such a good cook for a mother. John, you have
to taste her cream cakes one of these days. You cannot find better cream cakes
anywhere in this town.
Jane: I will save a piece for you if you want, John.
John: I love cakes, so please save a piece for me. Thanks, Jane.

John said that there was a food stand over there. He also asked
(a) _____________________________. Jane thanked him and said that
(b) _____________________________ as she already had her bottle of water.
Alex said that he wanted a chocolate pastry and a bottle of juice. Alex asked Jane
(c) ____________________________________________. Jane said that she was quite sure
as (d) ________________________________________________. Alex told Jane that
(e) _______________________________________. He then told John that (f) ________
______________________________________________________________________. Jane
said that (g) _________________________________________________. John replied
(h) ______________________________________________ and requested Jane to save a
piece for him and thanked her.
(2)

Leena: Where are my keys, mother? I must have lost them.
Mother: Where were you when you last had them?
Leena: I had them when I was coming through the front door. Riya waved to me from
her balcony.

Mother: Just a minute.
Leena: Where did you find them?
Mother: Beside the front door. You must have dropped them.

Leena asked her mother (a) _____________________________________. She added that
(b) __________________________________________________. Mother asked Leena
(c) _________________________________________________ . Leena remembered that
(d) _________________________________________________. She also added that Riya
(e) ___________________________________________. Mother asked (f) _____________
______________________________. Mother came back with the keys in her hand. Leena
asked her (g) ___________________________________________. Mother told her that
(h) _____________________________________________________.

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