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Quỳnh Huỳnh Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Conditional sentence?
Please help me check this sentence "If my father saw that, I wouldn't know what would happen" Thank you
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It doesn't sound quite right. You don't need "would" with "know"; you can say this:
"If my father saw that, I don't know what would happen."
"If my father saw that, I don't know what would happen."
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Qu?nh Hu?nhIf my father saw that, I wouldn't know what would happenCorrect.
Also,
If my father saw that, I don't know what would happen.
That's because "I [wouldn't / don't] know" is outside the scope of the conditional, which itself is an embedded interrogative.
I [don't / wouldn't] know { what would happen if my
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