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While choosing among projects, financial executives often pay [#permalink] New post   08 Sep 2017, 22:43
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While choosing among projects, financial executives often pay attention to opportunity cost of each project - financial benefits that would be produced if the investment would have been made in another project

A. be produced if the investment would have been
B. be produced if the investment was
C. be produced if the investment were
D. be produced if the investment had been
E. have been produced if the investment had been

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Re: While choosing among projects, financial executives often pay [#permalink] New post   08 Sep 2017, 22:58
C for me . Rest all don't use WERE .

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Re: While choosing among projects, financial executives often pay [#permalink] New post   08 Sep 2017, 23:55
Well its E for me sha. Waiting for the OA today
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Re: While choosing among projects, financial executives often pay [#permalink] New post   09 Sep 2017, 00:00
Answer has to be C since it is a case of subjunctive mood.
All other options can be eliminated for not using "were" with "If"...
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Re: While choosing among projects, financial executives often pay [#permalink] New post   11 Sep 2017, 10:00
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C is indeed the correct answer

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Re: While choosing among projects, financial executives often pay [#permalink] New post   15 Sep 2017, 07:27
Why is the subjunctive used in this case? I can't see any "trigger" verb such as mandate, order ecc..
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Re: While choosing among projects, financial executives often pay [#permalink] New post   30 Aug 2019, 15:39
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MvArrow wrote:
Why is the subjunctive used in this case? I can't see any "trigger" verb such as mandate, order ecc..


Hello,

If...were is another subjunctive case.

Here is a detailed 20 mins video for a deep insight into subjunctive. Hope this helps.



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Re: While choosing among projects, financial executives often pay [#permalink] New post   19 Sep 2021, 13:20
Why cant it be E? IS would be a simple future tense
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Re: While choosing among projects, financial executives often pay [#permalink] New post   01 Oct 2021, 05:02
Not clear why option E isn’t right .can someone explain ?

Would+past perfect can also signify hypothetical situations which is the case here .
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Re: While choosing among projects, financial executives often pay [#permalink] New post   26 Mar 2022, 20:08
Maxximus ExpertsGlobal5,

How do we decide between subjunctive and conditional statements?

I solved the question thinking of conditional statements.
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Re: While choosing among projects, financial executives often pay [#permalink] New post   26 Mar 2022, 23:57
Is investment plural, I am not clear why are we using were?
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Re: While choosing among projects, financial executives often pay [#permalink] New post   27 Mar 2022, 01:04
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VishakhaBharti wrote:
Is investment plural, I am not clear why are we using were?

That part of the sentence is about a hypothetical situation in which the investment is made in another project.

In a clause about a hypothetical situation, we use the subjunctive "were" with a singular noun, rather than the indicative "was."
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Re: While choosing among projects, financial executives often pay [#permalink] New post   27 Mar 2022, 05:13
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Maxximus ExpertsGlobal5,

How do we decide between subjunctive and conditional statements?

I solved the question thinking of conditional statements.


Hello krndatta,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, conditional statements are a kind of subjunctive statement, since they refer to hypothetical situations; “wishful trigger (if) + plural form of verb” is a correct, subjunctive usage; example: "If I were an athlete, I would be super fit.". In an imaginative context, subjunctive mood is a preferred usage for conveying the intended meaning effectively.

We hope this helps.
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Re: While choosing among projects, financial executives often pay [#permalink] New post   27 Mar 2022, 05:27
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VishakhaBharti wrote:
Is investment plural, I am not clear why are we using were?


Hello VishakhaBharti,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, since this sentence refers to a hypothetical or imaginative action, it uses the subjunctive mood; specifically, it uses the “wishful trigger (if) + plural form of verb” subjunctive mood construction.

To understand the concept of "Subjunctive Mood" on GMAT, you may want to watch the following video (~20 minutes):



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Re: While choosing among projects, financial executives often pay [#permalink] New post   03 Aug 2022, 04:45
pushpitkc wrote:
While choosing among projects, financial executives often pay attention to opportunity cost of each project - financial benefits that would be produced if the investment would have been made in another project

A. be produced if the investment would have been
B. be produced if the investment was
C. be produced if the investment were
D. be produced if the investment had been
E. have been produced if the investment had been

Source : Experts Global


Below are two points that explain the solution:
1) A general process is mentioned so a simple tense is required rather than a perfect tense. Therefore, the use of "had been" or "have been" is not required. A, D, and E can be eliminated.
2) Simple conditional cases require the use of "were" with "if". Thus option C is correct.
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