JAMB - English Language (2018 - No. 45)

Choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap. I would have been surprised if you ____________ the orange
plucked
have plucked
had plucked
did pluck

Explanation

'Would have' is used in conditional statements to talk about something that did not happen in the past. In the sequence of tenses, if the main clause contains 'would have', the conditional subordinate clause should be in its past participle.

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