Question

Choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
UNCOUTH
A) Crude
B) Awkward
C) Courteous
D) Refined

Answer 1

Hint:
i) The sentence is talking about an event which did not occur in the past so we need a past modal which fulfills the criteria.
ii) Past modals are formed by using ‘could’ , ‘would’ , ‘should’ followed by past participle verb,

Complete answer:
We place "had" before the main verb for the event that occurred first when you need to speak about two things that happened in the past and one event began and ended before the other one started.
"would have" is used along with a main verb. When you see "would have" in a sentence, it means that the event didn't really happen, because first something else didn't happen
If we had got a letter at 8 O’ clock yesterday, we would have started on the same day.

Lets see options :
A) got/ started : putting these two words making sentences grammatically wrong thus this option is wrong.
B) Had got/had started : putting these two words making sentences grammatically wrong thus this option is wrong.
C) Had got/would have started : We place "had" before the main verb for the event that occurred first when you need to speak about two things that happened in the past and one event began and ended before the other one started. Along with a main verb, "would have" is used thus this option is correct.
D) Would have got/had started : putting these two words making sentences grammatically wrong thus this option is wrong.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘C’.

Note:
i) Words like would have are called "modals of lost opportunity" because they describe conditions when we imagine that the past was different.
ii) We can use modal verbs for inference, using the available knowledge to guess whether anything is valid. The modal verb we choose indicates how confident we are about the choice.