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EngBB Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Be + infinitive: Pre-conditions

If we are to get there by noon we had better hurry.

My question is why the above sentence use we had... after the if-clause (past tense)?
  

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" It's not really about past time. php Giving it a name ("the unreal past") should make it better.

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  • " It's not really about past time.
  • php Giving it a name ("the unreal past") should make it better.
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I think "had better" relates to the idiom "to have to do something." It's not really about past time.



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