Q1. [1]
Report the following dialogue between two friends who are visiting a museum, by completing the sentence.
Auronima: What are you staring at?
Soumitra: I am in awe of this beautiful painting! I have not seen anything like this before.
Auronima asked Soumitra what he was staring at. Soumitra exclaimed that he was in awe of the beautiful painting and that _______________.
Previously asked in CBSE board exam
2024 2/4/1 Q3 (ix)
Generated by claude-sonnet-4-6 · 2026-06-15 07:12 · grounding rag
Model Answer
...he had never seen anything like that before.
Explanation
In reported speech, the present perfect "have not seen" changes to past perfect "had not seen," and "this" becomes "that." The exclamatory remark is reported using "exclaimed that." The blank fills in the second clause of Soumitra's reported statement.
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