Question

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

“He said, ‘It is impossible for him to break into a museum and steal it.’’

• A. <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> He said that it was impossible for him to break into a museum and steal it.
• B. <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> He said that it is impossible for him to break into a museum and steal it.

Answer 1

The correct option is A <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> He said that it was impossible for him to break into a museum and steal it.

<!--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 ‘is’ changes to ‘was’. Hence, ‘He said that it was impossible for him to break into a museum and steal it’ is the correct answer.