JAMB - English Language (2015 - No. 24)
From the options, choose the word(s) that best filll the gap.
If the armed robbers ------------------------ caught, they would have been lynched
If the armed robbers ------------------------ caught, they would have been lynched
would be
have been
are
had been
Paaiškinimas
The correct answer is ‘D’ because it is a past perfect tense. Option ‘A’ is ‘would be’ which implies the future past tense, option ‘B’ ‘have been’ which means/is a present perfect tense, option ‘C’ are which indicates ‘plural’