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h. Can a commerce graduate with five years of experience in teaching
high school apply for position 2?

Grammar Test

a. Pick out direct speech from the given passage and change them into
indirect speech.

After a decade, Traditional Test was searching books in the library and
Contemporary Test was surfing the net. Suddenly they saw each other but
did not talk. Suddenly Contemporary Test laughed at the joke which she was
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reading on her desktop. Meanwhile Traditional Test murmured. He said,
“I can’t. It’s almost impossible.” Hearing this Contemporary Test inquires,
“My friend, what happened to you? May I help you?” Then Traditional Test
turned her deaf ear. In fact, he was searching newly scientific discoveries
in books. He searched as many as he could but he failed to find the latest
information. Then after, Contemporary Test suggested him, “If you are
searching for information about discoveries, it will be easier working with
the Internet. Please come and sit by my side.”
b. Aawaran visited Bangkok last month. His friend, Monila asked him
few questions after his return. Then, Aawaran reported them in the
class. As in the examples below, change Monika’s questions into
reported speech.

Examples:

´ Monila: How is Bangkok?
Aawaran: Monila asked how Bangkok was.

´ Monila: Did you eat sea food?
Aawaran: Monila asked whether/if I had eaten sea food.

i. Where did you stay?
ii. How long did you travel by bus?

iii. Are the people cooperative?
iv. Did you find any similar culture?

v. Were there any differences in eating habit?
vi. What kind of food did people eat?

vii. Can you tell me the name of island where you stayed?

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