Multiple choice

Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that completes the sentence after change of narration.

Kerry said to me, “Why did you not change your clothes?”

Kerry asked me

  1. why I had not changed my clothes.

  2. why I did not change my clothes.

  3. why I would not change my clothes.

  4. why I have not been changing my clothes.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

First option is correct. The tense of the sentence changes into 'past'perfect' tense because the reporting verb in direct voice (said) is in past tense. As the reporting speech is in interrogative.