Complete the clumsy detective's incident report by choosing the right verb structures.

If I weren't so generally terrified of spiders, I wouldn't have dropped my heavy magnifying glass directly onto the suspect's crucial footprint yesterday.

If I weren't so generally terrified of spiders, I wouldn't have dropped my heavy magnifying glass directly onto the suspect's crucial footprint yesterday.

This mixed conditional describes how a present/general state caused a past result.

We use the Simple Past (weren't) in the "if" clause for an ongoing, general truth (the detective is always afraid of spiders).

We use the perfect conditional (wouldn't have dropped) in the main clause for the specific unreal past event ("yesterday").