Discussion
If I were you, I __________ that laptop. It's much too expensive.
Answer: C
The sentence reads If I were you, I wouldn't buy that laptop.
'If I were you' is a second conditional: an imagined situation, marked by the past subjunctive were. The main clause of a second conditional takes would plus the bare verb, here in the negative because the reason given is that the laptop is too expensive.
'won't buy' and 'shan't buy' are future forms, which belong to a first conditional ('If I go, I won't buy'), not to an unreal 'If I were'. 'would buy' has the right form but the wrong sense: nobody advises buying something because it is much too expensive.
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