Grammar

Tense, Mood & Modality

Medium

Indicate which of the following sentences has grammatical inaccuracies.

The professor recommended that the article be published immediately.

Rarely have historians agreed on the causes of the revolution.

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

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

✅ Correct Option: 4

'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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Had it not been for her quick thinking, the plan ____ into chaos.

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He speaks as if he ______ the theory himself, though he barely understands it.

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If I ______ you were coming, I might have stayed.

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In the following sentences, the incorrect part of the sentence is underlined. Choose an alternative from the four given options so that the sentence is rendered correct.

If I had known that you needed to go to the airport yesterday, I could drive you there.

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Find the sentence that violates grammatical rules from the following options

Indicate which of the following sentences has grammatical inaccuracies.

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