Q1. [1]
Report the dialogue between a grandson and his grandfather by completing the sentence:
Grandson: Grandpa, can you tell me what inspired you to set up a school in the village?
Grandfather: Seeing the lack of adequate facilities and the children's desire to learn.
In response to the question about his reason for setting up of a village school, the grandfather says that __________.
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2023 2/5/1 Q3 (vii)
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Model Answer
the grandfather says that he was inspired to set up the school seeing the lack of adequate facilities and the children's desire to learn in the village.
Explanation
This is a reported speech (indirect speech) fill-in-the-blank. The key rule here is to convert the direct response into a that-clause and shift the perspective from first to third person. The grandfather's exact words become the content of the reported clause. No tense backshift is strictly needed here as it describes a general reason, but the structure "says that + reported content" is what examiners expect. Keep it to one smooth sentence.
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