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Exercise-7
Read the given conversation and complete the following passage:
Customer        : I want this gift to be wrapped.
Shopkeeper    : I’m not a good gift wrapper. The woman who wraps the gift is on leave today.
Customer        : Could you please wrap it for me?
Shopkeeper    : It will be a great pleasure for me to wrap the gift for you.
Customer: Perfect, as now my mom will think I did it myself.
The customer told the shopkeeper (a) ________ . The shopkeeper replied that (b) ________Â Â and the woman who wrapped the gifts was on leave that day. The customer asked him (c) ________ . The shopkeeper replied that (d) ________ to wrap the gift for him. The customer said that it was perfect as then his mother would think he had done it himself.
Answers:-
(a) that he wanted that gift to be wrapped   Â
(b) he was not a good gift wrapper
 (c) if he could wrap it for him                      Â
(d) it would be a great pleasure for him
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