Question:
John got a terminal illness. He couldn’t get out of the bed on his own.
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A.
John’s illness is too terminal for him to get out of the bed on his own. -
B.
No sooner had John’s illness got terminal than he could not get out of the bed on his own. -
C.
Were it not for his terminal illness, John would be able to get out of bed on his own. -
D.
Such was John’s illness that he could never get out of the bed on his own.
Reference explanation:
Correct Answer: EASY
Knowledge: Conditional sentences
Explain:
Translation: John has a terminal illness. He couldn’t get out of bed by himself.
Consider the answers:
A. John’s illness is so advanced that he can’t get out of bed on his own. => This sentence is wrong because in the original sentence we used simple past tense, here we use simple present tense.
B. John was just getting sicker when he couldn’t get out of bed on his own. => Wrong meaning
C. If it weren’t for the terminal illness, John would be able to get out of bed on his own. => Can’t use conditional sentence type 2 here because the original sentence is in the past simple, if you change to conditional sentence, you must change it to type 3 conditional sentence. (The conditional sentence is not real in the past.)
D. John was so sick that he could never get out of bed by himself.
Translated: John was so sick that he could never get out of bed by himself.
Choose D.
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