Rewrite the following in direct speech.

i)The stranger asked me where the shopping centre was.

ii)We told them that we had withdrawn money from the bank that day.

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i)"Where is the shopping centre?" the stranger asked me.

ii)"We have withdrawn money from the bank today," we said.

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marto answered the question on October 9, 2018 at 10:21

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