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The key answer of exercise 50.3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Unit 50 - Questions 2 for the textbook English Grammar in Use with authors Raymond Murphy from Cambridge University Press

Question

You have been away for a while and have just come back to your home town. You meet Tony, a friend of yours. He asks you a lot of questions.

Now you tell another friend what Tony asked you. Use reported speech.

Answer

  1. He asked me how I was.
  2. He asked me where I'd been.
  3. He asked me how long I'd been back.
  4. He asked me what I was doing now.
  5. He asked me why I'd come back. / ... why I came back.
  6. He asked me where I was living.
  7. He asked me if / whether I was glad to be back.
  8. He asked me if / whether I had any plans to go away again.
  9. He asked me if / whether I could help him find a job.