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Worship Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

A Baffling Conditional Sentence

0Here is the question that ı read yesterday but to my amazement,ı saw this structure twice in just one day,so it makes me fuss.thanks in advance!02br
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00If a pedestrian 01font00steps02font00 in front of a carefully driven automobile,the accident 01font00would be02font00 considered an excusable homicide.0-
  

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01font00I don't consider this correct. It should be either 02font02br
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0I suppose much depends on who the pedestrian is.02br
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thanks dear Clive and Mr. Pedantic but what you mean by telling it depends upon the pedestrian.If you make it clear,i'd like to be more happy.Thanks.
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Here is the original text.

A killing that has legal justification is called justifiable homicide.For example,a killing in self-defense would be a justifiable homicide.The law regards a purely accidental killing as an excusable homicide.For example,if a pedestrian steps in front of a carefully driven automobile and is killed,the accident would be considered an excusab
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Hi,

but what you mean by telling it depends upon the pedestrian.If you make it clear,i'd like to be more happy.

Don't worry about it, it was just a little joke. The humorous suggestion was that, for example, if you are in a car and you accidentally hit a grammarian, no-one will care, but if you accidentally hit the Queen of England, you'll get into tr
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Thank you very much indeed Clive.So we can say that the question is wrong.Thanks for everything.

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