Q:
Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter. If none of the substitutions imporves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet.
But for one witness the accused ought to have been sent to jail.
Answer & Explanation
Answer: A) would have
Explanation: ‘ought’ represents advice, ‘would’ represents strong possibility of an event here. ‘would have’ will be the correct grammatical expression here. The sentence expresses that the accused was not sent to jail because of one witness.
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