Gupta: Do you know the girl who was sitting over there? Waitress: No, Sir, I do not know her, to speak of I've noticed she has lunch here on Saturdays. Gupta: Doesn't she come on any other day? Waitress: I never see her on other days. Convert to reported speech

Gupta asked the waitress if she knew the girl who had been sitting over there. The waitress answered that she did not know her, but that she had noticed the girl had lunch there on Saturdays. Gupta then inquired if the girl didn't go there on any other day. The waitress replied she never saw the girl on other days.

Explanation:

When converting direct speech to reported speech, some simple steps can be very helpful:

- Use verbs such as "say", "tell", "ask", "inquire", "answer", "reply", "state", etc. to indicate the manner in which something was spoken.

- Change the pronouns according to the situation. For example, if it is a man speaking, the pronoun "I" can become "he".

- Change words that indicate time or location if necessary. For instance: here → there; today → that day; tomorrow → the next day; etc.

- Change the verb tenses to their respective pasts. For example: simple present → simple past; present perfect → past perfect; will → would.

An example:

- Mila said, "Why do you always call me when I'm busy? I'll talk to you tomorrow."

- Mila asked why he always called her when she was busy. Then she said she would call him the next day.

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.