Question

Read the sentence.if the test was easier, teachers would not know what students really learned.which revision changes the underlined verb to the subjunctive mood?change was to was not. change was to is. change was to were. change was to had been.

Answer 1

A verb is considered to be in subjunctive mood when it tells a condition in imaginary state. To make the sentence conditional or imaginary, we should change “was to had been”. The word “had been” would make the whole sentence an imaginary situation rather than factual.

Answer: change was to had been