Questão 3165010

“Laura said that she can’t attend the meeting now because her supervisor is traveling,” – because it keeps the verb tenses from the direct speech and violates the principle of sequence of tenses.

“Laura told that she couldn’t attend the meeting now because her supervisor was traveling.” – the verb “tell” requires a mandatory indirect object; now does not undergo deictic shift.

“aura said that she couldn’t attend the meeting then because her supervisor was traveling,” – because the modal can shifts to could when the reporting verb (said) is in the past, following the principle of modal remoteness.

“Laura said that she can’t attend the meeting then because her supervisor is traveling.” – it maintains present tenses and only modifies the deictic element; inconsistent with reported discourse in a past context.

“Laura told to them that she couldn’t attend the meeting because her supervisor travels.” – because of temporal changes and the presence of contextual markers.