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[navi]

Are these sentences correct:
1-He refused to help me and did not tell anyone to do it.
2-He refused to help me and did not tell anyone to do so.
(...did not tell anyone to help me)

3-He did not speak French to me and prevented my sister from doing it.
4-He did not speak French to me and prevented my sister from doing so.
(... prevented my sister from speaking French with me)

5-My mother did not drive me to the airport and did not pay for it. (... did not pay for me to be driven to the airport)

[pugachevV]

1-He refused to help me and did not tell anyone else to do it.
2-He refused to help me and did not tell anyone else to do so.


3-He did not speak French to me and prevented my sister from doing it.
4-He did not speak French to me and prevented my sister from doing so.
I prefer 4).


5-My mother did not drive me to the airport and did not pay for it.

Rather than "it" a taxi would be clearer.