JAMB English Language 2019 Objective — Question 25

Question 25 of 60 from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) English Language 2019 Objective paper, with the correct answer and a full explanation.

You could have heard the voice if you weren't asleep.

A. you were not asleep so you heard the voice
B. you were asleep so you did not hear the voiceCorrect
C. you heard the voice though you were asleep
D. you did not hear the voice though you were not asleep

Explanation

The sentence is a second conditional expressing an unreal past condition: since the listener was in fact asleep, they did not hear the voice, which is the logical meaning of 'You could have heard the voice if you weren't asleep' when read as a counterfactual.

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