Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution required’.
If the police hasn’t stopped us we would have reached home by now.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is option 1 i.e. hadn’t stopped us we would have reached.
The original sentence uses "hasn't", which is incorrect in this context. The sentence is referring to a hypothetical situation in the past, so the past perfect tense should be used.
"Hadn't" is the correct past perfect form of "have" for the third person singular and is used with "stopped" to express an action that did not happen in the past.
Therefore, the corrected sentence would be "If the police hadn't stopped us, we would have reached home by now."