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Concerning reported speech, analyze the statements.

I. When the reporting verb is in the present, backshift is optional in neutral contexts.
II. Yesterday commonly becomes the previous day in indirect reports.
III. Must for obligation is normally reported as had to under backshift in neutral contexts.
IV. Would generally stays would in reported conditionals.
V. Universal truths often remain in the present even after a past reporting verb.

Which statements are CORRECT?
In phrasal-verb description and use, choose the option that accurately states transitivity and separability and illustrates it correctly.
You are revising a formal report that must foreground the process rather than the agent. Select the rewrite that preserves the original present progressive meaning and maintains a formal passive focus.
Regarding conditional sentences in standard usage, analyze the statements.

I. Zero conditional typically uses present simple in both clauses to state general truths.
II. In first conditional, will belongs in the main clause when indicating a real possibility.
III. Second conditional uses past simple in the if-clause and would plus base form to discuss remote situations.
IV. Third conditional uses past perfect in the if-clause and would have plus past participle to imagine a past alternative.
V. Mixed conditionals are restricted to present conditions with future consequences in formal registers.

Which statements are CORRECT?
Choose the alternative in which the modal verb expresses possibility.