Submitted by admin on Wed, 10/13/2021 - 02:57
Question:
O:8:"stdClass":2:{s:8:"question";s:70:"If the pension policy ______ approved, there might have been a strike.";s:7:"choices";a:4:{i:0;s:6:"is not";i:1;s:7:"was not";i:2;s:7:"had not";i:3;s:12:"had not been";}}
Answer:
d
TOEIC Reading 5 Category:
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answer explanation:
<p>If the pension policy <span style="text-decoration:underline;">had not been</span> approved, there might have been a strike.</p>
<p>The correct answer is (D) had not been.</p><p>In this conditional sentence, we are talking about a hypothetical situation in the past. The verb "approve" is in the past participle form "been" to show that the action of approving the pension policy was completed before the possibility of a strike. The auxiliary verb "had" is used to form the past perfect tense, indicating that the non-approval of the pension policy happened before the strike could have occurred.</p>
lesson_link:
toeic-reading/conditional-clause