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Sayantani Barman

Experta en el extranjero | Updated On - Jan 12, 2023

Question: If anyone at InterCom Financial Advisers would have anticipated, or even suspected, the impending sale of the Koniko kelp processing plant, they would have advised owners of Koniko stock to unload all shares immediately.

(A) If anyone at InterCom Financial Advisers would have anticipated
(B) Had anyone at InterCom Financial Advisers anticipated
(C) If any people at InterCom Financial Advisers would have anticipated
(D) If any people at InterCom Financial Advisers had anticipated
(E) If anybody at InterCom Financial Advisers anticipated

Answer: D
Explanation: The following line of reasoning could be used to support the proposed modification to the language:

  • Parallelism
  • Considering two separate truths
  • Modifiers

A: Incorrect
This choice is incorrect. The conclusion that is presented in the part that is not emphasized employs "would have" in conjunction with the verb. Since this is the case, the verb tense for the IF clause should be in the past perfect.

B: Incorrect
B is an incorrect choice. When used by itself, the word "had" denotes the straightforward use of the simple past tense. The use of the simple past tense in the conditional clause is INACCURATE for the identical reason that was given for option A.

C: Incorrect
This is an incorrect choice. Similar mistake to that in option A. The conclusion that is presented in the part that is not emphasized employs "would have" in conjunction with the verb. Since this is the case, the verb tense for the IF clause should be in the past perfect.

D: Correct
It is the correct choice. IF clause uses the appropriate past perfect verb tense.

E: Incorrect
For the same reason as with the other possibilities, using the simple past in an IF clause is incorrect.

“If anyone at InterCom Financial Advisers would have anticipated, or ev” - is a GMAT sentence correction question. The text that is underlined in these questions has grammatical mistakes, and we must select the right response from the list of possibilities. The GMAT verbal section includes GMAT sentence correction.

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