Multiple choice

Directions: Select the alternative that best rephrases the given sentence.

He said to his servant, ''Why are you so lazy today?"

  1. He asked his servant why he was so lazy that day.

  2. He asked his servant why he had been so lazy that day.

  3. He asked his servant why he was being so lazy that day.

  4. He asked his servant why was he so lazy that day.
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Explanation

If reported verb is in the past tense and reported speech is in the simple present tense, reported speech changes to simple past in indirect narration. 

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