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NDA 2025 GAT · English · Sentence Improvement · easy

If the monsoon [will fail], prices will rise sharply.

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Choose the best replacement for the bracketed part. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose 'No improvement'. If the monsoon [will fail], prices will rise sharply.
  1. A. fails
  2. B. would fail
  3. C. is failing to
  4. D. No improvement
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Answer: (A) fails

In a first conditional sentence the 'if' clause takes the simple present, and the main clause takes 'will'. Hence 'If the monsoon fails' is correct. 'Will' is never used in the 'if' clause here.
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