Foundation
English
Verb
Question
Select suitable modal auxiliary to complete the sentence:
If people drove more carefully, there ______ be fewer accidents.
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Solution
The correct answer is Option C.
WOULD is used to express the consequence of an imagined event.
In the given sentence, the speaker is expressing that as a consequence of people driving carefully, there would be fewer accidents.
Thus WOULD is the correct answer.
The remaining options are incorrect because:
MAY expresses possibility.
WILL expresses the future tense.
CAN expresses the ability to do something.
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