Read the conversation between Duong and Chau, and then report what Chau told her friend, using reported speech.

Duong: You know, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. 

Chau: Many people think that the real inventor of the telephone was Antonio Meucci, a poor Italian American. 

Duong: Really? How could he do that? 

Chau: He shared a workshop with Bell in the 1860s, and made a “talking telegraph” for his wife, who was ill in bed. 

Duong: Why didn’t Meucci become the inventor? 

Chau: He didn’t become the inventor because he never took his idea to the US Patent Office. 

Duong: Why not? 

Chau: He was too poor to pay the $250 that he needed. 

Duong: But Alexander Graham Bell is considered the inventor of the telephone, isn’t he? 

Chau: Alexander Graham Bell took the invention to the Patent Office, and became the inventor.