s&s wrote:The health commissioner said that the government had implemented strict measures to eradicate the contaminated food and, despite the recent illnesses, it will try to prevent the outbreak from recurring in the future.
a it will try
b that it tried
c it had tried
d it would have tried
e that it would try

E

ps: i knw that q has been posted before.. but i stil find this confusing
thanks.

iamcste wrote:

s&s wrote:The health commissioner said that the government had implemented strict measures to eradicate the contaminated food and, despite the recent illnesses, it will try to prevent the outbreak from recurring in the future.
a it will try
b that it tried
c it had tried
d it would have tried
e that it would try

E

ps: i knw that q has been posted before.. but i stil find this confusing
thanks.

Crux portion of the sentence

The health commissioner said .....to prevent the outbreak from recurring in the future.


Since, Commisioner refers to future actions, all the past tenses " tried" can be eliminated ( B C D)


We need "that" for parallellsim

The health commissioner said

that the government had implemented

and

that it would try

Choose E