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Re: Past conditional tense usages [#permalink]
Hi Mike, thank you very much for your reply. My whole question about how one can use various forms of conditionals stems from an explanation to a GMATPrep SC given by a popular prep company. The SC question is below. In order to eliminate (incorrect) answer choice (C) through one of the many errors, the prep company says that usage of "would" is incorrect as the rest of the sentence that follows - as the message is forwarded..- is in present tense. In that case, what I do not understand is how the usage of "might" in the correct answer choice (D) is correct. Could you kindly clarify in light of this question when one could use "would" and "might"?

In a blow to those who still harbored the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient had added as the message is forwarded to others or sent back and forth.

(A) who still harbored the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient had added
(B) who had still been harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick for enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person was privy to any comments that a recipient might have added
(C) who still were harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick enabling an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person is privy to any comments that a recipient would add
(D) still harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges are private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick that enables an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person will be privy to any comments that a recipient might add
(E) still harboring the illusion that E-mail exchanges had been private, a watchdog group recently uncovered a trick that will enable an interloper to rig an E-mail message so that this person was privy to any comments that a recipient might add
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