Select the option that displays correct spelling and ordinal formation for formal assessment contexts.

Select the option that uses the adverbs hard, nearly and late with correct meanings and positions.

Choose the option that aligns with standard prepositional collocations in academic registers:

Given the evidence gathered after class, choose the sentence that most precisely expresses a strong past deduction.

Mark the option with accurate subject–verb agreement in a structure that often causes errors in formal writing.

Choose the option that presents natural tense–adverbial collocation in international academic usage.

Mark the option that uses the double genitive to indicate one among several possible friends of John without ambiguity.

A policy statement should express a generic rule for a student body in formal style. Choose the most appropriate revision.

Mark the option that correctly explains a core function of auxiliary do and supplies an appropriate example.

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?