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He said, "Honesty is the best policy."

He said that Honesty is the best policy.
He said that Honesty was the best policy.
He said that Honesty would be the best policy.
He said that Honesty will be the best policy.

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

If Reporting verb is in Past Tense and Reported Speech is a universal truth, then we do not change it in indirect speech.

1. The MLA said to people, "Ladies and gentlemen, your vote is my real power."

The MLA said that people your vote will my real power.
The MLA addressed the people as ladies and gentlemen and said that your vote will be my real power.
The MLA addressed the people as ladies and gentlemen and said that their vote is my real power.
The MLA addressed the people as ladies and gentlemen and said that their vote was his real power.

Answer: Option D

2. She said, "Well, Rahul, You have done this work."

She told Rahul that you had done this work.
She told Rahul that you had done that work.
She told Rahul that he had done that work.
She told Rahul that he has done that work.

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

We can remove "Well", "Okay", "You see" etc from indirect speech.

3. He said to me, " I had to finish this first."

He told me that he has to finish this first.
He told me that he have to finish this first.
He told me that he had had to finish this first.
He told me that he had to finish this first.

Answer: Option C

Explanation:

When Reporting verb in past Tense and reported speech is having "had to" after subject + First Verb.
Then we change "had to" to "had had to" + First verb.