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Conditional sentence?
Situation: Your friend is having trouble fitting some gifts in her luggage.
1. If you .......... (check) the size of your suitcase, you wouldn't have this problem now.
a. had checked
b. checked
c. both a and b are correct
Hello friends. Which one is the answer?
3 Answers
- frankLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
In the sentence, "would" is in the past tense. Therefore, we should use past participle at the beginning.
What is confusing is the word "now" . But if you omit it, it would sound like the problem with the suitcase did not happen immediately. I think that the answer is a.
- ?Lv 68 years ago
Correct- a . had checked.
This structure "had + past participle of the verb is generally found at the beginning of Conditional Sentence.
