Indicate which of the following sentences has grammatical inaccuracies.

Question

Option 1: The professor recommended that the article be published immediately.

Option 2: Rarely have historians agreed on the causes of the revolution.

Option 3: By next winter, they will have been living abroad for a decade.

Option 4: He talks about the experiment as if he conducted it himself last year.

AfterBoards · Accepted Answer

'As if' about an unreal past requires the past perfect: 'as if he had conducted it.' The simple past 'conducted' is wrong. The subjunctive 'be published', the inversion after 'Rarely', and the future perfect continuous are all correct.

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