An English question?

Question

Mr.Smith told his students that Edison -- the electric light.

A.invents B.invented

choose A or B?

And why?

Answer 1

b because its the past simple

Answer 2

B. invented

edison created the light he is not in the process of making it... also the indiction of told- past tense

Answer 3

B. Past tense.

Answer 4

It depends if your working forward through a timeline then it would be A, but if your talking on past text it'd be B

Answer 5

B, because it happened in the past

Answer 6

B, invented. It's past tense.

Answer 7

B, because what Eddison did (Invented the electric light), he did it in the past. So the verb would be in the past tense.

It's the simple past tense.

Answer 8

B. invented - because the first verb of the sentence "told" is a past tense verb and your sentence needs to agree in verb tense.