Choose the grammatically correct sentences from the options below:
(A) If the fielder at deep square leg would have held that catch, India would have won the match.
(B) Water boils at a lower temperature in Shimla than in Chennai because the air pressure is lower in the hills.
(C) Nikhil has been answering forty emails from parents since breakfast, and he sent the last one a minute ago.
(D) I would rather you took the train to Pune, as the highway is still flooded after last night’s rain.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (B) and (D) only
(A) If the fielder at deep square leg would have held that catch, India would have won the match. — Incorrect.
- In an “if” sentence about an unreal past, the “if” part takes the past perfect: had + past participle (V3).
- It never takes “would have”.
- Correct form: If the fielder at deep square leg had held that catch, India would have won the match.
(B) Water boils at a lower temperature in Shimla than in Chennai because the air pressure is lower in the hills. — Correct.
- A fact that is always true takes the simple present, so “boils” is right.
(C) Nikhil has been answering forty emails from parents since breakfast, and he sent the last one a minute ago. — Incorrect.
- When we say how many things are finished (forty emails), we use the present perfect: has + V3.
- The present perfect continuous does not go with a finished number.
- Correct form: Nikhil has answered forty emails from parents since breakfast, and he sent the last one a minute ago.
(D) I would rather you took the train to Pune, as the highway is still flooded after last night’s rain. — Correct.
- After “would rather” + another person, the verb takes the past form (“took”), even though the meaning is about now or the future.