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Help the temperamental head chef complete his dramatic kitchen instructions by choosing the correct word for each blank.

I am trusting you with my life's work. Honestly, were you to reveal the secret sauce recipe to our rivals, I would banish you from this kitchen forever!

I am trusting you with my life's work. Honestly, were you to reveal the secret sauce recipe to our rivals, I would banish you from this kitchen forever!

To make a second conditional more formal, we can drop "if" and use the inversion "were + subject + to + infinitive" (were you to reveal).

"If" doesn't work here because it would require the full verb phrase (if you were to reveal). "Should" doesn't work because it is followed by a bare infinitive, not an infinitive with "to" (should you reveal).

Since this is a second (unreal) conditional, the result clause requires "would" + base verb (would banish).

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