IPMAT Indore 2022
VA
Sentence Correction
Easy
If I had known that you needed to go to the airport yesterday, I could drive you there.
If I had known that you needed to go to the airport yesterday, I could drive you there.
Correct Option: 2
- Option 1 is incorrect as 'should have driven' suggests an obligation or recommendation rather than a possibility based on a past condition.
- Option 2 is correct because it correctly uses the conditional perfect 'would have driven' to indicate a hypothetical action in the past, matching the past unreal conditional sentence structure.
- Option 3 uses 'would drive,' which is grammatically incorrect here because it implies future possibility rather than reflecting on a past hypothetical condition.
- Option 4 is also incorrect as 'should drive' suggests advice or recommendation, not fitting the hypothetical past action implied in the sentence.
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