Choose the indirect speech of this sentence.
He said to me, "What are you doing?"

He asked me what was I doing.Correct answerYour answerHe asked me what I did.Correct answerYour answerHe asked me what I was doing.Correct answerYour answerHe asked me that what I was doing.Correct answerYour answer

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CorrectNot quiteAnswer C

Correct answer: C

The question keeps "what", takes the order of a statement, and "are doing" moves back to "was doing".

Worth noting

"That what I was doing" adds a "that", which is used for statements, not for questions. "What I did" loses the "-ing" of an action going on.

Concept: A "wh-" question in reported speech
Typical timeTypical: 45 s
Your timeYours: —

The rule this testsDirect and indirect speech

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Choose the indirect speech of this sentence.He said to me, "What are you doing?"

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Choose the indirect speech of this sentence.
He said to me, "What are you doing?"