Question

If Somu had studied well, _______________
Which of the options given below best completes the following sentence?
A) He will score more marks
B) He would score more marks
C) He would have scored more marks
D) He had scored more marks

Answer 1

Hint: Tense is the term related to the verb which shows the time of occurrence of an event or action of the verb. The event/action can occur in the past, present or future. The above sentence is given in past tense so we have to fill the blank in a manner such that the tense of the sentence is correct and the sentence is grammatically correct.

Complete answer:
Let us understand more about the sentence first,
- We know the sentence is given in the past tense but precisely it is given in past perfect tense i.e. had+past participle form.
- Since the sentence begins with ‘if’ it is an if-clause precisely the third type of if- clause i.e. the if clause written in the past perfect tense.
- If the if-clause is given in past perfect tense then the main clause will be in the ‘would+have+past participle’ form.
- Option A, Option B and Option D are incorrect options because they cannot form the main clause if they are not given in the ‘would+have+past participle’ form.
- Option C is the correct option as it is given in the ‘would+have+past participle’ form.

Therefore, the complete sentence will be ‘ If Somu had studied well, he would have scored more marks.’ Thus the correct answer is option ‘C’.

Note: If clauses are of three types 1) if clause in simple present 2) if clause in simple past and 3) if clause in past perfect. They form the conditional sentences such that if clause sentence in simple present tells about a condition that has a possibility of getting fulfilled, simple past if clause shows a condition that has only theoretical possibility of getting fulfilled and past perfect if clause shows a condition that has no possibility of getting fulfilled because it is too late.