Please help me choose the correct tense. Thanks.
SENTENCE:
An active super volcano lies in wait under Yellowstone National Park. If it were to explode, it would plunge the world into a volcanic winter. As the global temperature dropped, millions could die. It would be by far the biggest disaster that [HAD]/[HAS] ever hit the modern world.
QUESTION:
Which option is correct in the above sentence [HAD] or [HAS]?
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Answers · 12
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HAS
Also, change the wordorder a bit in this sentence: It would by far be the biggest.. etc.
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Actually, neither is the best option.
It would be by far the biggest disaster to have ever hit the modern world.
You are using the auxiliary would to set up a possible past action in the future. This also allows you to use the Past Unreal Conditional since it is something that could occur but hasn't yet.
And the sentence structure doesn't really matter. "It would be by far" or "It would, by far, be" are interchangeable sentence structures.
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You could say -
It would be, by far, the greatest disaster to ever hit the modern world.
OR
By far, it would be the greatest disaster to ever hit the modern world.
Hope this helps
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had
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Thanks Aysel.
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