Gmat sentence correction 19 20

19). If anyone at InterCom Financial Advisers would have anticipated, or even suspected, the impending sale of the Koniko kelp processing plant, they would have advised owners of Koniko stock to unload all shares immediately.

(A) If anyone at InterCom Financial Advisers would have anticipated

(B) Had anyone at InterCom Financial Advisers anticipated

(C) If any people at InterCom Financial Advisers would have anticipated

(D) If any people at InterCom Financial Advisers had anticipated

(E) If anybody at InterCom Financial Advisers anticipated


20). If the reporter would have known the landlord's side of the story, she would not have written an article so favorable to the 81-year-old tenant.

(A) would have known the landlord's side of the story, she would not have written

(B) would of known the landlord's side of the story, she would not of written

(C) had known the landlord's side of the story, she would not have written

(D) had known the landlord's side of the story, she would not have wrote

(E) knew the landlord's side of the story, she would not have written

Answers -

19). D is the right answer - Correct tense
anyone - singular
any people - plural,
use of " they would .. " in later half of the sentence implies we need plural .

20). C is the right choice.

Whenever you come across if ... then tense construction in a sentence,

IF Clause Then Clause

PAST PERFECT ---- WOULD/COULD + HAVE + PARTICIPLE

If Ram had won... he would have given.....