سوال ۳ کنکور ارشد مدیریت کسبوکار (MBA) ۱۴۰۳
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If you had told me as a teenager that at 27 I would be an ordinary clerk in a midsized firm in Cyprus, I .......... steadfast in assuring you that is not the dream I imagined.
پاسخ صحیح: گزینهٔ D — would have been
پاسخ تشریحی
Answer: option 4 — would have been completes the third conditional (شرطی نوع سوم): if + past perfect, would have + past participle. The imagined telling and the speaker's imagined response both belong to the teenage past: If you had told me ..., I would have been steadfast ....
- (1) was: simple past does not mark the unreal past consequence.
- (2) would be: could express a present consequence in a mixed conditional, but the response imagined here is the teenager's response at the time.
- (3) had been: is past perfect; the result clause needs the conditional modal construction, not another unmarked past-perfect clause.
Exam trick: Date the result as well as the condition. An unreal past response calls for would have + past participle.
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