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ACT English Difficulty: Hard (580)

Digital ACT English Practice Question #1970

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Choose the best option for the underlined portion: If the structural engineer would have inspected the bridge pilings sooner, the cracks might have been detected before the flood.
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Never put "would have" in the IF-clause: If he HAD inspected...

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In past unreal (third) conditionals, the "if" clause takes past perfect ("had inspected"), never "would have"....

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