I said to him, “Why are you working so hard?” ...

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I said to him, “Why are you working so hard?”

A. I asked him why he was working so hard

B. I asked him why was he working so hard

C. I asked him why he had been working so hard

D. I asked him why had he been working so hard

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My father once said to me, “If I can’t trust my people, then I don’t want to be doing this.”

A. His father once told him that if he couldn’t trust his people then he didn’t want to be doing that.

B. My father once told me that if he couldn’t trust his people then he didn’t want to be doing that.

C. My father once told me that if he couldn’t trust my people then he didn’t want to be doing that.

D. My father once told me that if he couldn’t trust his people then he didn’t want to be doing this.