Excerpt from norse mythology part b kate mcconnaughey (12) but some of baldur’s magic food would have been given to the prince, and it made him as strong as baldur. read the passage. look at the underlined section marked number (12). there may be a mistake in the way the sentence is written. if you find a mistake, choose the answer that corrects the mistake. if there is no mistake, choose ‘correct as is.’
a) correct as is.
b) but some of baldur’s magic food is given to the prince, and it made him as strong as baldur.
c) but some of baldur’s magic food was given to the prince, and it made him as strong as baldur.
d) but some of baldur’s magic food were given to the prince, and it made him as strong as baldur.

c) but some of Baldur’s magic food was given to the prince, and it made him as strong as baldur.

Explanation:

The original sentence contains a Perfect Continuous Conditional which is usually used in third conditional sentences, Thus, it expresses an unreal and impossible situation that never actually happened. However, the prince had Baldur's food, and as a result of that he became as strong as him.

Option B is wrong because it mixes Present Simple and Past Simple. Finally, option D fails to have noun-verb agreement because food is uncountable and cannot be followed by a plural verb like were.

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