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Read the top-secret government manual. Select ALL the grammatically correct options to complete this hypothetical rule.
"____________ in your backyard, you would be required to offer them a cup of tea and a biscuit."
The correct answers are Were aliens to land, If aliens were to land, and If aliens landed.
This is a second conditional sentence (unreal present/future), indicated by "would be required" in the main clause.
To express a highly unlikely hypothetical event, we can use "if + subject + simple past" (If aliens landed) or "if + subject + were to + base verb" (If aliens were to land).
For a more formal, literary tone, we can drop "if" and invert the subject and "were" (Were aliens to land).
"Had aliens landed" is incorrect because it is a third conditional form, which mismatches the main clause.