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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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Conditional

Hello, I have a couple of doubts regarding this sentence: If the number of stars is infinite and they are uniformly distributed, then they would cover every part of the night sky, with no gaps between them.
Is this a second conditional? Should it say if the number of star WERE infinite and they WERE... or the first one is correct?
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Anonymous I have a couple of doubts questions regarding this sentence If the number of stars is infinite and they are uniformly distributed (first conditional), then they would cover (second conditional) every part of the night sky, with no gaps between them. As a whole, this is a mixed conditional. It's partly first conditional and partly second.

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  • Anonymous I have a couple of doubts questions regarding this sentence If the number of stars is infinite and they are uniformly distributed (first conditional), then they would cover (second conditional) every part of the night sky, with no gaps between them.
  • As a whole, this is a mixed conditional.
  • It's partly first conditional and partly second.
  • Anonymous Should it say if the number of star WERE infinite ...
  • You can change it like that, but there's no obligation to do so, no.
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AnonymousI have a couple of doubts questions regarding this sentence
If the number of stars is infinite and they are uniformly distributed (first conditional), then they would cover (second conditional) every part of the night sky, with no gaps between them.
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Thank you so much, it was very helpful.
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