Practice mode Tenses

Which part of the sentence “If the shop had been open yesterday evening, I would buy some bread for dinner.” contains an error?

Correct answer A. I would buy

Explanation

A past perfect "if" clause about a past event forms the third conditional, so the result should be "I would have bought some bread".

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