Multiple choice

Directions: Look at the underlined part of sentence. Below the sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of the substitutions is better than the underlined part, indicate it as your answer. If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (4) as your answer.

Hadn't we cancelled the journey at the last moment, we should all have been killed in the crash.

  1. If we had not cancelled

  2. Had we cancelled

  3. If we had cancelled

  4. No improvement needed
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The first clause needs to be a conditional statement, hence, the inclusion of 'if'.

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