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Storytelling and debate
Tell a story with texture: sequence, background, reported speech
1Setting the scene in the pastUse the past continuous as background and drop a completed past event on top of it, with tokhon and the already-finished giyechhilo holding the two together.
2Passing on what someone saidReport speech both ways, with je after the verb of saying and with bole closing a quoted clause, and keep the original tense unchanged.
3How things used to beBuild the past habitual with tam, te, and the honorific ten, and set it against the present to talk about what has changed.
Debate, concede, and reason in hypotheticals
4Conceding before you objectGrant the other side with mante hobe and ek dik theke, then hold your ground with tobuo and tobe.
5Saying it without saying whoForm both Bangla passives, a verbal noun with howa for plain statements and one with jaowa for what can be done, and hedge with mone hoy.
6What would have happenedUse the le conditional participle with a tam result for unreal pasts, and with a future result for warnings about what is bound to happen.