Question

Complete the following passage
If the officer (a). ...... the bribe, he (b).
arrested. Now his family will also
(c).................. suffer. He must (d)................. careful about it
has not taken

Answer 1

Answer:

If the officer would not have taken the bribe, he wouldn't be arrested. Now his family will also have to suffer. He must have been careful about it.

Explanation:

In the above passage, the words have been missing.

The missing words are to be filled according to the correct grammatical usage.

In the first blank, 'would not have been' is the correct tense to be used.

The first sentence tells about the probability of the outcome.

'Have' is used with the present tense.