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Anonymous Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Conditional sentence in a conditional sentence

Hello,

Does the sentence "If we had known yesterday that if we chose to go outside, we would have to stay at home today, we wouldn't have chosen it" make sense?


Thanks for any replies!

  

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To me, it makes sense, but I don't really know if you could use such nesting to express the meaning. It might not sound that clear to the listener, though. It needs correcting too, I think.

— Moonrise

  • To me, it makes sense, but I don't really know if you could use such nesting to express the meaning.
  • It might not sound that clear to the listener, though.
  • It needs correcting too, I think.
  • anonymous If we had known yesterday that if we chose to go outside yesterday , we would have to stay at home today, we wouldn't have chosen it .
  • I'd also say: If we had known that if we chose to go outside yesterday , we would be staying at home today, we wouldn't have chosen that.
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To me, it makes sense, but I don't really know if you could use such nesting to express the meaning. It might not sound that clear to the listener, though. It needs correcting too, I think.

anonymousIf we had known yesterday that if we chose to go outside yesterday, we would have to stay at home today, we w
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anonymousDoes the sentence "If we had known yesterday that if we chose to go outside, we would have to stay at home today, we wouldn't have chosen it" make sense?

Yes, except the choice is between going outside and staying inside or staying in the house, not going outside and staying at home.

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anonymous"If we had known yesterday that if we chose to go outside, we would have to stay at home today, we wouldn't have chosen it"

I've got to admit that the sentence is confusing.

If we had known X yesterday, we wouldn't have chosen X.

X = that if we chose to go outside, we would have to stay at home today

Is it like that?

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