WASSCE English Language · Paper 1 style

Conditional

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Choose the option that best completes the sentence: If I ___ rich, I would build a school.

Aam
Bwill be
Cwere
Dbeen

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Answer: C

If I were.

Trap A Conditional sentence errors: Type 1: If + present, will + base. Type 2: If + past, would + base. Type 3: If + past perfect, would have + past participle.

Trap B Confuses tense/aspect forms: Present perfect links past to now (since 2019, already, yet, for three years); simple past goes with finished time (yesterday, in 2010, last week).

Trap D Uses the wrong form of the verb or word: Identify the structure the frame demands (past perfect after 'by the time … arrived'; passive 'will be + past participle'; 'refuse to + verb') and check the option fills it exactly.

Traps in Conditional

Conditional sentence errors
Type 1: If + present, will + base. Type 2: If + past, would + base. Type 3: If + past perfect, would have + past participle.
Confuses tense/aspect forms
Present perfect links past to now (since 2019, already, yet, for three years); simple past goes with finished time (yesterday, in 2010, last week).
Uses the wrong form of the verb or word
Identify the structure the frame demands (past perfect after 'by the time … arrived'; passive 'will be + past participle'; 'refuse to + verb') and check the option fills it exactly.

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