Question

<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Tap the reported speech for the sentence.

“He said, ‘My client lives in an apartment that is far away from the place of theft.”

• A. <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> He said that his client lived in an apartment that was far away from the place of theft.
• B. <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> He said that his client lives in an apartment that is far away from the place of theft.

Answer 1

The correct option is A <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> He said that his client lived in an apartment that was far away from the place of theft.

<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> As this sentence is reporting the defense lawyer’s statement from the past, the verbs in the reported speech should be in the simple past tense. So, the verb ‘lives’ changes to ‘lived’. Hence, ‘He said that his client lived in an apartment that was far away from the place of theft’ is the correct answer.