Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the given sentence.
If I was the queen, I would give a handsome sum towards education.
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. were the queen.
"was the queen" is the incorrect segment. It contains a grammatical error in the verb form "was". It should be "were" instead.
This sentence expresses a hypothetical situation. In conditional sentences that express unreal or hypothetical situations that are often introduced by "if", the verb in the subjunctive form i.e. verb that expresses hypothetical scenarios is used.
For the verb "to be", the subjunctive form is "were" for all subjects, including singular ones like "I."
The correct sentence is- "If I were the queen, I would give a handsome sum towards education."