Question

Identify the part of a sentence which is grammatically incorrect:

[A] If you would have come earlier
[B] there would have been enough time
[C] for us to go to the movie
[D] which has been running to full-houses

• A. A
• B. B
• C. C
• D. D
• E. No Error

Answer 1

The correct option is A A

Here, "If you would..." should be substituted with "If you could...". The given sentence denotes how an action taken in the past would have affected a future event. 'Could' is used to refer to some ability someone had in the past whereas would, here, is used to denote a possibility that is conditional. However, this possibility that 'would' represents is sure to occur if those conditions are fulfilled. Here, the condition hinges on 'could'- "If you could have come earlier", then "there would have been enough time for us to go to the movie which has been running to full-houses."