Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence:
He asked me where do I live.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. where I lived
This is a case of Indirect Speech (Reported Speech). When a question is reported, the sentence structure changes from interrogative to assertive form, and the tense usually shifts back one step.
Here, “do I live” (present simple in direct speech) changes to past simple “I lived” in reported speech because the reporting verb “asked” is in the past tense.
Option Analysis:
A – incorrect because it keeps present tense, which doesn’t match past reporting
B – incorrect word order; “did I live” is interrogative form, not statement form
C – correct because it follows backshift rule and proper statement structure
D – grammatically incorrect structure