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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

A chance

Hi,

There was a chance he understood.

Is this fine or when we use 'was a chance' lines, it must be followed by could/might etc. Such as: there was a chance he might/could understand. Can we avoid it and say directly as I've done in the example sentence?

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The following variants are all correct. Simple past. There was a chance he understood.

— CalifJim

  • The following variants are all correct.
  • Simple past.
  • There was a chance he understood.
  • Past of the past.
  • There was a chance he had understood.
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The following variants are all correct.

Simple past.

There was a chance he understood.

Past of the past.
There was a chance he had understood.
There was a chance he might have understood.
There was a chance he could have understood. (less used)

Future of the past.

There was a chance he would understand.
There was a chance he might unde
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