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Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the given sentence:

If I was the queen, I would give a handsome sum towards education.

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SSC CGL 2024 (Tier-I) Previous Year Paper (17-Sep-2024) (Shift 3)
The correct answer is

were the queen

In conditional sentences expressing hypothetical situations, "were" is used instead of "was." The corrected sentence is: "If I were the queen, I would give a handsome sum towards education."

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