I have the following piece of code which i taken from model,
...
$select = $this->_db->select()
->from($th
$statement = $this->sql->getSqlStringForSqlObject( HERE GOES Zend\Db\Sql\SelectSQL object );
echo "SQL statement: $statement";
Example:
$select = $this->sql->select();
...
$select->from(array( 'u' => 'users' ));
$select->join(...
$select->group('u.id');
...
$statement = $this->sql->getSqlStringForSqlObject($select);
echo $statement;