Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
“They say he robbed the bank.” Means: ________.

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They say he’s been robbed in the bank.

He is said to rob the bank.

He said he’d robbed the bank.

He is said to have robbed the bank.

answer is D.

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Detailed Solution

Concept- “They say he robbed the bank.” Means:he is said to have robbed the bank.
Now, let’s examine the given options-
( a) ‘ They say he’s been burgled in the bank ’ is an incorrect option because it fully changes the environment and the meaning of the judgment .
b) ‘ He's said to rob the bank ’ is an incorrect option because it indicates that Y will burglarize the bank eventually soon.
c) ‘ He said he ’d burgled the bank ’ is an incorrect option because we need to use the pronoun ‘ they ’ with the reporting verb.
( d) ‘ He's said to have burgled the bank ’ is the correct option because it indicates the asked meaning.
In the given question- We can conclude that Y is said to have burgled the bank. Then, we've used the present perfect tense to denote an action that was performed by Y in the history.
Hence , the correct answer is option 4.

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