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Contraposition Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
conditional
Why is the conditional used here rather than the past?
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It refers to an imagined situation in which he did not have to ask. You could argue that he preferred in the actual situation, not in an imagined situation, but in practice saying "preferred not to" (no "would have") implies that someone didn't do the thing described.
- It refers to an imagined situation in which he did not have to ask.
- You could argue that he preferred in the actual situation, not in an imagined situation, but in practice saying "preferred not to" (no "would have") implies that someone didn't do the thing described.
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It refers to an imagined situation in which he did not have to ask. You could argue that he preferred in the actual situation, not in an imagined situation, but in practice saying "preferred not to" (no "would have") implies that someone didn't do the thing described.
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