Multiple choice

Directions: Select the correct direct form of the following indirect form:

He asked me why I had come back.

  1. He said to me, “Why do you come back?”

  2. He said to me, “Why will you come back?”

  3. He said to me, “Why have you come back?”

  4. None of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

"Have" is changed to "had" when the reporting verb is in past tense. This is true for option 3 only.

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