Question

Transform the sentence : But for the strike, he would have been half way across the world by now. (Begin with '' Had ''). Please do answer quickly.

Answer 1

had not he been half way across the world for the the strike by now?

Answer 2

Answer: Had there been no strike, he would have been halfway across the world by now.

Explanation: 'But for' (Negative meaning word) used for saying that something would have happened if something else or someone had not prevented it.

Here the sentence means --> If there had been no strike, he would have been halfway across the world by now. and the same is written by omitting 'If' and when we begin the sentence with the helping verb (Had) we have to do the inversion.

This how final answer is written as asked.

Had there been no strike, he would have been halfway across the world by now.