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Given below are two statements : One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
"I wish it were possible."
Assertion (A) : Despite the fact that the above sentence lacks subject-verb concord, as per the English Grammar, it is a syntactically correct sentence.
Reasons (R) : It is a syntactically correct sentence because in subjunctive mood (of verb) even singular subject is followed by a plural verb.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :
The sentence "I wish it were possible" is syntactically correct because it uses the subjunctive mood. In English grammar, the subjunctive mood allows for singular subjects to be followed by a plural verb ("were" instead of "was") to express wishes, hypothetical scenarios, or unreal conditions. Therefore, both the assertion and the reason are true, and the reason correctly explains the assertion in this case.
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