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If anyone at InterCom Financial Advisers would have anticipated, or ev
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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
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03 Apr 2009, 22:37
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The pronoun "they" is plural; therefore, its antecedent must be plural. That means the answer cannot be A, B, or E. ("Anyone" is singular. "People" is plural.) "Would have anticipated" is not the correct tense, so the answer can't be C. Therefore, the answer must be D.
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25 Jul 2018, 06:29
Bunuel wrote:
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.
+1 for D.
(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 --> Correct, rectifies S-V error 'people - they', and uses correct tense
(E) If anybody at InterCom Financial Advisers anticipated
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25 Jul 2018, 06:46
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
+IMO B. For options A,C,E the sentence begins with IF which should be followed by then...
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25 Jul 2018, 06:57
archish3113 wrote:
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.
(B) Had anyone at InterCom Financial Advisers anticipated
+IMO B. For options A,C,E the sentence begins with IF which should be followed by then...
archish3113 Answer can not be B because the later part of the sentence(after the comma) has the subject as 'they' and 'anyone' in B is singular.
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(A) If anyone at InterCom Financial Advisers would have anticipated
The outcome present in the non-underlined portion uses "would have" + verb. So the verb tense for IF clause should be past perfect INCORRECT
(B) Had anyone at InterCom Financial Advisers anticipated
Use of "had" just by itself without a verb indicates simple past tense. Simple past tense in conditional clause is INCORRECT for the same reason specified in option A
(C) If any people at InterCom Financial Advisers would have anticipated
Same error as in option A INCORRECT
(D) If any people at InterCom Financial Advisers had anticipated
Uses the correct past perfect verb tense in the IF clause.
(E) If anybody at InterCom Financial Advisers anticipated
Use of simple past in IF clause is wrong for the same reason as in other options. INCORRECT
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10 Aug 2018, 16:19
Bunuel wrote:
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
D is my answer as it uses correct verb form for conditional clause.
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