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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Conditional clauses' meaning
For example "if I were you, I would've done it" means "I'm not you, so I didn't do it". Does it have some sort of regulations or is it alright as long as it has the same meaning?
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Anonymous "if I were you, I would've done it" means "I'm not you, so I didn't do it". No, it doesn't mean that. It doesn't mean I didn't do it (even though I didn't because I wasn't even in the same situation that I'm imagining).
- Anonymous "if I were you, I would've done it" means "I'm not you, so I didn't do it".
- No, it doesn't mean that.
- It doesn't mean I didn't do it (even though I didn't because I wasn't even in the same situation that I'm imagining).
- It means you didn't do it, but if I had been in your place in the same situation that you were in, I would have acted differently than you did and would have done it.
- Anonymous Does it have some sort of regulations I'm not sure what kind of regulations you are talking about.
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Anonymous"if I were you, I would've done it" means "I'm not you, so I didn't do it".No, it doesn't mean that. It doesn't mean I didn't do it (even though I didn't because I wasn't even in the same situation that I'm imagining). It means you didn't do it, but if I had been in your place in the same situation that you were in, I wo
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CalifJim It means you didn't do it, but if I had been in your place in the same situation that you were in, I would have acted differently than you did and would have done it.I agree that this is the most likely interpretation, but there is another:
A: I'm an idiot. I divorced her. Just because she was unfaithful once, I divorced her. She was so b
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