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The teacher sympathized with the students who were forced to attend classes on Sundays, stating that if he was in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays.

(A) if he was in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays
(B) if he were in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays
(C) he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays if he was in charge
(D) if he were in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday holidays
(E) every Saturday and Sunday would be holidays if he was in charge
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The teacher sympathized with the students who were forced to attend... [#permalink] New post  14 May 2019, 23:34
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The teacher sympathized with the students who were forced to attend classes on Sundays, stating that if he was in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays.


The situation is not real but hypothetical subjunctive, therefore we need to use "were" and not "was".

Eliminate A, C, and E.

From B and D, the meaning will be the key.

"B" says , "he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays"

Meaning is absurd. Sat and Sun can't be declared as "Holidays", but Sat and Sun can be declared "Holidays".

"as" gives a sense of ambiguous comparison saying that

1. "The way we can declare holidays, we can also declare Sat and Sun".

2. Holiday is a type of day just as Sat and Sun.



Hence D is correct, though I marked B initially :( .

(A) if he was in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays

(B) if he were in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays

(C) he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays if he was in charge

(D) if he were in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday holidays

(E) every Saturday and Sunday would be holidays if he was in charge
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Re: The teacher sympathized with the students who were forced to attend... [#permalink] New post  14 May 2019, 23:43
Regarding D, what part of speech is the word "holidays?"

he - subject
would declare - predicate
Saturday / Sunday - Direct object
holidays - ?
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Re: The teacher sympathized with the students who were forced to attend... [#permalink] New post  14 May 2019, 23:51
xplosivefury wrote:
Regarding D, what part of speech is the word "holidays?"

he - subject
would declare - predicate
Saturday / Sunday - Direct object
holidays - ?


I believe anything other than the subject of a sentence is considered predicate.

For choice D query, I think "Holidays" is used as a "noun adjective" modifying nouns "Sat and Sun".
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Regarding D, what part of speech is the word "holidays?"

he - subject
would declare - predicate
Saturday / Sunday - Direct object
holidays - ?
As AkshdeepS pointed out, holiday itself is a noun. To me it sounds as if it is part of an infinitive that has not been included (explicitly) in the sentence:

He declared Sunday (to be) a holiday.
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The teacher sympathized with the students who were forced to attend... [#permalink] New post  22 Mar 2020, 02:06
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The teacher sympathized with the students who were forced to attend classes on Sundays, stating that if he was in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays.

(A) if he was in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays
(B) if he were in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays
(C) he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays if he was in charge
(D) if he were in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday holidays
(E) every Saturday and Sunday would be holidays if he was in charge


Hi everyone,

Here is how I tackled this one:

Pre-thinking

At first it seems clear that we are tested on tenses. This if construction requires the usage of were and would.
So options A,C and E are out.

Now the only split left is as holidays VS Holidays.

Of course both of them sound plausible but we can use a couple of tactics to eliminate Option B and select Option D.

#1: As + noun means in the role of. So in the role of holidays is not very correct.
#2: Try to force this construction in other cases: declare X as Y----> I declare Matt as a teacher.
Now from this example we can see how this construction is wrong.

Option D


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Re: The teacher sympathized with the students who were forced to attend... [#permalink] New post  22 Mar 2020, 08:03
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Declare as is not an idiomatic phrasal verb; the verb declare does not take the preposition 'as." As such, one may not find "declare as" in a dictionary. Hence B is out.
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Re: The teacher sympathized with the students who were forced to attend... [#permalink] New post  06 Nov 2020, 05:30
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The teacher sympathized with the students who were forced to attend classes on Sundays, stating that if he was in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays.

(A) if he was in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays
(B) if he were in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays
(C) he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays if he was in charge
(D) if he were in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday holidays
(E) every Saturday and Sunday would be holidays if he was in charge


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Answer: D

(A) Since the sentence talks about a hypothetical situation, it requires the use of the subjunctive mood. The use of if should have given you a clue to the same. The subjunctive mood requires the use of would and were. The use of was will be incorrect. Also declare....as is the incorrect idiom, the correct idiom is only declare.

(B) Declare....as is the incorrect idiom, the correct idiom is only declare.

(C) The use of was is incorrect; we require were instead.

(D) The correct answer.

(E) Same as C.
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Re: The teacher sympathized with the students who were forced to attend... [#permalink] New post  22 Jun 2023, 08:33
dcummins wrote:
The teacher sympathized with the students who were forced to attend classes on Sundays, stating that if he was in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays.

(A) if he was in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays
(B) if he were in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays
(C) he would declare every Saturday and Sunday as holidays if he was in charge
(D) if he were in charge, he would declare every Saturday and Sunday holidays
(E) every Saturday and Sunday would be holidays if he was in charge


The sentence refers to a Hypothetical consntruction, thus, the usage must be : "if he were...." -Reject (A),(C) & (E)

Further declare x y is the correct idiomatic usage of declare, hence reject (B), Answer must be (D)
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