Choose the option that is the most appropriate conversion of the following sentence into Direct Speech.
The interviewer asked me why I had left my previous job.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
In reported speech, 'why I had left my previous job' uses the past perfect tense ('had left'). When converting back to direct speech, the tense shifts back one step in time to the simple past tense ('did you leave'). The direct speech must also be a question, as indicated by the original reporting verb 'asked'. Option A correctly uses the simple past tense in a question format within the inverted comma.