Question

Choose the option that completes the sentence correctly:

If the team members _____ a diary, they _____ their tasks so often.

• A. were keeping, won't be forgetting
• B. keep, wouldn't be forgetting
• C. kept, wouldn't forget
• D. kept, will not forget

Answer 1

The correct option is C kept, wouldn't forget

Since the options do not allow us to make the sentence a first conditional sentence, we must make it a second conditional one. Second conditional sentences are used to express an improbable or unlikely situation in the present but use the past tense. In such sentences, the 'if clause' is written in the past tense and the main clause has 'would/ wouldn't + base verb'. So, the correct answer is option C.