Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence may contain an error. You have to find that part of the sentence which contains the error. If there are no errors, choose ‘No error’ as your answer. If it weren’t for the children, we haven’t had anything to talk about.

  1. if it weren’t

  2. for the children

  3. we haven’t had

  4. anything to talk about

  5. no error
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

It should be ‘we wouldn’t have’. When the verb in the if-clause is in the past simple tense, we use would + infinitive in the main clause.

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