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Umer Akram Posted 13 years ago
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What is the difference between these two sentences

1) It is possible that there had been a bridge between the two cities.
2)It is possible that there would have been a bridge between two cities.
  

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It is possible that there had been a bridge between the two cities - before some later past time. We do not know whether or not there was a bridge. It is possible that there would have been a bridge between two cities - if the citizens had raised the money to build i t..

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  • It is possible that there had been a bridge between the two cities - before some later past time.
  • We do not know whether or not there was a bridge.
  • It is possible that there would have been a bridge between two cities - if the citizens had raised the money to build i t..
  • There wasn't a bridge.
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It is possible that there had been a bridge between the two cities - before some later past time.
We do not know whether or not there was a bridge.

It is possible that there would have been a bridge between two cities - if the citizens had raised the money to build it..
There wasn't a bridge.
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The grammatical:
"had been" is past Perfect; Sometimes we talk about something that happened in the past:"Sara arrived at the party." This is the starting point of the story.Then, if we want to talk about things that happened before this time, we use the past perfect.
We use "would had been" when we imagine situations or actions in the past(=things that did not happened).
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