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Direction: In the following questions, some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is your answer. If there is No error, your answer is (4), i.e. No error.

  1. Solve the question according to given instruction
    1. The sea looks
    2. as if it has been
    3. agitated by a storm
    4. No error.
Correct Option: B

had been will replace has been because –
to show that a comparison is unreal, we use Past Tense with a present meaning after as if/as though.
Look at the examples given below :
She looks as if she were rich.
She talks as if she were mad.
Hence, as if it had been is the right usage.



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