Question

"The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly" (Rockwell).
Select the indirect quotation that correctly sequences the verbs.
Rockwell says that his pictures are communicating the kinder view of life.
Rockwell says that his pictures will communicate the kinder view of life.
Rockwell says that his pictures communicate the kinder view of life.
Rockwell says that his pictures communicated the kinder view of life.

Answer 1

Answer:

• Rockwell says that his pictures communicate the kinder view of life.

Explanation:

There is no move in tenses in this quotation,  since the first verb is in the present tense.

Answer 2

Answer: The indirect quotation that correctly sequences the verbs is: Rockwell says that his pictures communicate the kinder view of life.

Explanation: An indirect quotation consists in introducing someone else's ideas in your text without using the exact words that he/she used but stating that these ideas belong to him/her. Unlike what happens with direct quotations, quotation marks are not used with indirect quotations. The third indirect quotation among the options is the correct one because what Rockwell is saying in the original direct quotation is that the kinder view of life is communicated in his pictures currently. In that way, he is not referring to the pictures he made in the past nor to the ones he will make. Neither is he talking about the pictures he is making while he is speaking; therefore, the third indirect quotation is the correct one because it includes a verb in the present tense ("communicate"), which is used to indicate something that that happens at a current time.