Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect voice. The tour guide said, "We have been walking for hours, but the ruins we have been looking for are just around this corner, and we will be there in a few minutes."
The tour guide said that they had been walking for hours, but the ruins they had been looking for were just around that corner, and they would be there in a few minutes.
In indirect speech the pronoun "we" changes to "they" and the near demonstrative "this" changes to "that".
Because the reporting verb "said" is in the past, present-perfect-continuous "have been walking" shifts back to past-perfect-continuous "had been walking".
Likewise the present "are" becomes "were" and the future "will be" becomes "would be".
Option A applies every one of these back-shifts consistently, whereas B keeps the original tenses, C fails to shift "are" and "will", and D wrongly reduces the continuous tenses to simple past.
Therefore the correct indirect form is option A.
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