Question

Fill in the blank with a suitable modal verb.
If I were the Prime Minister, I _ _ _ _ _ _ fight corruption. (Will/would)

Answer 1

Hint:Choose the option which will be grammatically correct for the given sentence and also we must see that the selected option will make the sentence meaningful.

Complete step-by-step answer:
The above given sentence is required to be corrected by using the correct modal verb but the sentence is the example of 2nd conditional.
Let’s first know the Conditionals.Conditional Refers to the sentence which starts with ‘if' and it has two clauses the first one has the ‘action’ and second one has the ‘result’. In English Grammar there are 4 types of conditionals e.g., Zero Conditional, First Conditional, Second Conditional and Third Conditional.Given option ‘will’ is helping verb of 1st conditional because it shows the result in future whereas ‘would’ is helping verb of 2nd conditional as this shows the hypothetical result.
Now let’s examine and understand the above given options and find the appropriate option.
Will: the option ‘will’ is a modal verb of 1st conditional that shows a certain result in future but the given sentence is a hypotheticalsituation which can’t have a future result. So this is an inappropriate option for the correction of sentences.
Would: second option ‘would’ is an appropriate and suitable option because ‘would’ is the helping verb of 2nd conditional so the correct sentence is “If I were the Prime Minister, I would fight the corruption “.

Note:For choosing the correct option knowing actual meaning of the given question is necessary or else our sentence can be grammatically incorrect.
To understand such questions the study of Conditional in English grammar is required so that we can write correct sentences. We should practice more and more in order to inculcate them.