Question

Complete the sentence with the appropriate verb tense:
If it rained, you __________.
a) would get wet
b) will get wet
c) get wet
d) none of the above

Answer 1

Hint:
 A verb is a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence. A verb is the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence.

Complete answer:
In the given question, we have to find out which of the given options includes the answer in simple present tense and indicates that getting wet would be the result of raining, which is a possibility or an imagination ( as indicated by the usage of ‘if’ in the sentence, which is defined as ‘supposing that, assuming that, in the circumstances that; used to introduce a condition or choice’ ).
Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question -
Option (a.), 'would get wet', refers to ‘would’ which is used while talking about the result of an event that is imagined.
Therefore, option (a.) is correct as it indicates that getting wet would be the result of raining, which is an imaginative possibility.
Option (b.), ‘will get wet', is incorrect as it does not indicate that getting wet would be the result of raining since it is in the future tense.
Option (c.), ‘get wet', is incorrect as it does not indicate that getting wet would be the result of raining since it is grammatically incorrect without an auxiliary verb before ‘get’.
Option (d.), ‘none of the above' is incorrect as option (a.) 'would get wet' is the correct answer.

Note:
 In this question, it will be helpful for the student to recall the concept of tenses. Tense is a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time. There are three tenses - past, present, and future.