curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-use-reported-speech/6838ba29f45fdcf55d55426d.md
Listen to the audio and answer the question below.
According to Mark, what might have stopped the system from failing?
Adding more memory to the server.
Mark does not talk about adding hardware.
Restarting the database regularly.
There is no mention of restarts in the sentence.
Balancing the queries more evenly over time.
Reducing the number of users.
The focus is not on user count.
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Perhaps means maybe or possibly, showing that something is uncertain but likely. For example:
Perhaps we should check the logs again. – This suggests an idea without being certain.
Had + subject + verb in the past participle is an alternative to If + subject + had + verb in the past participle and is used in Third Conditional sentences to talk about hypothetical past situations. It emphasizes a condition that did not happen but might have changed the outcome. For example:
Had we fixed the bug earlier, the system wouldn't have crashed. - This means the same as If we had fixed the bug earlier, the system wouldn't have crashed.
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