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Sb70012 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Mutiple Choice Option [in case he should forget/forgot]

He put the things in his bag in case he ……… them.

a)should forget (Answer Key)
b)forgot
c)forgets
d)wouldn’t forget

Hi,

In my opinion "b" (forgot) can be correct as well.
Do you agree with me?

Source: taken form school exam sheets
Thank you

(I have asked this question in other forums too but answers were different. that's why I decided to ask it here too)
  

Top answer

( b) is normal colloquial English ( a) is old-fashioned. In everyday American English, it would sound prudish.

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  • ( b) is normal colloquial English ( a) is old-fashioned.
  • In everyday American English, it would sound prudish.
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( b) is normal colloquial English
( a) is old-fashioned. In everyday American English, it would sound prudish.
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So both are correct but the first one is more correct than the second one.
Right?
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"Should forget" is hypercorrect.
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sb70012He put the things in his bag in case he ……… them.
None of the answers sound satisfactory to me, but I would have chosen c).
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This is a tricky one. Part of the problem is that "forgot" can be seen as 'past indicative', so it may sound as if he did forget them in the end. Let me use different examples:

In case you forgot, my name is...
In case you were wondering, the correct answer is...

In both of the 'in case' clauses above, the speaker presumes (at least to some extent) that the acti
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Of those choices I'd chose B. I often say and hear it

A commoner approach is to say this.
He put the things in his bag so that he wouldn't forget them.
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ozzourtiHe put the things in his bag lest he (should) forget them.
Argh! I knew someone would eventually mention the elephant in the room.
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