In each of the following sentences, parts of the sentence are left blank. Beneath each sentence, different ways of completing the sentence are indicated. Choose the best alternative among them.
He told the teacher that ___________________.

Option A is the correct answer.

The sentence is reported speech, which typically requires consistency in tense when converting direct speech to indirect speech. The context of the sentence suggests past tense reporting.

Option A:  This option correctly maintains tense consistency (past tense) in indirect speech.

Option B: This option incorrectly uses the present tense "are," which does not align with the past tense reporting.

Option C: Similar to option B, this uses the present tense "is," which is inconsistent with the reporting verb.

Option D: This option changes the perspective to "you," making it inconsistent with the subject of the sentence.