Directions: The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.

Had you / not reached in time, / we will have / lost our lives.

Question

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This question was previously asked in

SSC CGL 2020 Tier-I Official Paper 1 (Held On : 13 Aug 2021 Shift 1)

Answer 1

The correct answer is 'we will have' i.e. this part of the sentence has an error.

Key Points

In the given sentence, the use of the simple future tense ''will have'' is incorrect.
The given sentence is the third conditional sentence explaining that present circumstances would be different if something different had happened in the past.
The third conditional sentence format: past perfect, modal auxiliary (would, could, should, etc.) + have + past participle.
When using the third conditional, we use the past perfect (i.e., had + past participle) in the if-clause and the modal auxiliary (would, could, should, etc.) + have + past participle in the main clause.
Therefore, the past form of the verb 'would' should be used in place of the simple future form of the verb 'will'.

Hence, the correct answer is option 4.

Correct sentence: Had you not reached in time, we would have lost our lives.

Hinglish

दिए गए वाक्य में simple future tense ''will have'' का प्रयोग गलत है।
दिया गया वाक्य third conditional sentence है जो यह बताता है कि यदि अतीत में कुछ अलग हुआ होता तो वर्तमान परिस्थितियाँ भिन्न होतीं।
Third conditional sentence प्रारूप: past perfect, modal auxiliary (would, could, should, etc.) + have + past participle.
Third conditional का उपयोग करते समय, हम if-क्लॉज में past perfect (i.e., had + past participle) का उपयोग करते हैं और modal auxiliary (would, could, should, etc.) + have + past participle, main clause में।
अतः verb 'will' के simple future form के स्थान पर past form of the verb 'would' का प्रयोग किया जाना चाहिए।

अतः सही उत्तर option 4 है।

सही वाक्य: Had you not reached in time, we would have lost our lives.