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Select suitable modal auxiliary to complete the sentence:
If people drove more carefully, there ______ be fewer accidents.
Select suitable modal auxiliary to complete the sentence:
If people drove more carefully, there ______ be fewer accidents.
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Solution
The correct option is C would
The correct answer is Option C.WOULD is used to express the consequence of an imagined event.In the given sentence, the speaker is expressing that as a consequence of people driving carefully, there would be fewer accidents.Thus WOULD is the correct answer.The remaining options are incorrect because:MAY expresses possibility.WILL expresses the future tense.CAN expresses the ability to do something.
The correct answer is Option C.
WOULD is used to express the consequence of an imagined event.
In the given sentence, the speaker is expressing that as a consequence of people driving carefully, there would be fewer accidents.
Thus WOULD is the correct answer.
The remaining options are incorrect because:
MAY expresses possibility.
WILL expresses the future tense.
CAN expresses the ability to do something.
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