According to the Economic Development Corporation of Los Angeles County,
if one were to count the Los Angeles metropolitan area as a separate nation, it would have the world’s eleventh largest gross national product, that is bigger than that of Australia, Mexico, or the Netherlands.
Issue: Structure | Meaning
Analysis:
1. The sentence talks about a hypothetical situation in which Los Angeles metropolitan area is a nation, though it is actually not.
- The correct form for such cases is: if + subject + simple past tense + could/would/might + verb in simple form
- So the form of this sentence should be: if X were Y, it would ....I have highlighted the issues in options below:
A. if one were to count the Los Angeles metropolitan area as a separate nation, it would have the world’s eleventh largest gross national product,
that is- ", that.." that is incorrectly used for non-essential modifier here
B. if the Los Angeles metropolitan area
is counted as a separate nation,
it has the world’s eleventh largest gross national product,
that being- ", that.." that is incorrectly used for non-essential modifier here
C. if the Los Angeles metropolitan area
were a separate nation, it
would have the world’s eleventh largest gross national product,
D. were the Los Angeles metropolitan area a separate nation, it
will have the world’s eleventh largest gross national product, which is
E. when the Los Angeles metropolitan area is counted as a separate nation, it
has the world’s eleventh largest gross national product, thus
Answer:
C