Choose the correct option: ''If I had left early like every one else did, I sitting here, now listening to all this rubbish.''

Question

Choose the correct option:

''If I had left early like every one else did, I sitting here, now listening to all this rubbish.''

1. A. May not be
2. B. may be
3. C. wouldn't be (Correct answer)
4. D. was

Correct Answer

Option C — wouldn''t be

Detailed Solution & Explanation

The correct answer is wouldn''t be.

Key Points

• "If I had left early...
• I wouldn't be sitting here now." This is a mixed conditional (past perfect in if-clause, present conditional in main clause).
• "Wouldn't be" is correct.

Additional Information

• This is a mixed conditional: a past condition with a present result — *if* + past perfect in the clause, *would* + bare infinitive in the main clause.
• The three standard types: first (real future, *if + present, will*), second (unreal present, *if + past, would*) and third (unreal past, *if + past perfect, would have*).
• The mixed form is used when the past action still shapes the present, which is exactly what *now* signals in this sentence.
• *Would* never appears in the *if*-clause in standard usage — a reliable way to eliminate options.