Question
Select the most appropriate direct form of the given
sentence. The policeman told the inspector that he had arrested a man for breaking the lockdown rules.Solution
It uses the pronoun "I" to refer to the policeman himself and the present perfect tense "have arrested" to indicate that the action of arresting the man occurred in the past with a connection to the present.
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