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Sundarnaz Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Conditional clause

If you drank hot milk, you would sleep well.
The conditional clause of this conditional sentence seems to me incorrect. Please correct it.
  

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sundarnaz The conditional clause of this conditional sentence seems to me incorrect. It's just your imagination. It's fine.

  • sundarnaz The conditional clause of this conditional sentence seems to me incorrect.
  • It's just your imagination.
  • It's fine.
  • CJ
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sundarnazThe conditional clause of this conditional sentence seems to me incorrect.
It's just your imagination. It's fine.
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sundarnaz If you drank hot milk, you would sleep well. The conditional clause of this conditional sentence seems to me incorrect. Please correct it.
Yes, this is incorrect. It should be restructured in this way:

If you had drank hot milk, you would have sleep well.
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EpitorialIf you had drank hot milk, you would have sleep well.
I'm afraid this isn't correct, Epitorial. The original sentence looks OK. However, if you're insistent on changing it, it'd look better if changed to-

If you had drunken hot milk, you would have slept well.
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karansardana I'm afraid this isn't correct, Epitorial. The original sentence looks OK. However, if you're insistent on changing it, it'd look better if changed to:
If you had drunken hot milk, you would have slept well.
Absolutely. My mistake. Much better on your part.
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Thanks to all. It means I have some potential for writing correct English, If I try.
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karansardanaIf you had drunken hot milk, you would have slept well.
This is still not quite right. The past participle of drink is drunk. Drunken is an adjective.

I think I should also point out the difference in meaning between these two conditionals.

If you drank hot
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Ah, right. Thanks Aspara Gus.
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OMG. This thread had me in stitches. Talk about step-wise convergence on the truth! Emotion: smile

CJ

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