Conditional subjunctive?
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Is the following sentence correct?
"The initiation process should've succeeded were the assigned engineer to meet proper setup guidelines."
Can a conditional construct be made in the subjunctive mood as above?
Thank you.
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The tenses are inconsistent. " I still don't like it because it crams too much meaning into the grammar and not the words. It seems to be saying that the engineer did not meet the guidelines, but the reason the process failed might have been something else.
- The tenses are inconsistent.
- " I still don't like it because it crams too much meaning into the grammar and not the words.
- It seems to be saying that the engineer did not meet the guidelines, but the reason the process failed might have been something else.
- Just like explained humor, explained explanation is failed explanation.
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The tenses are inconsistent. I would expect "The initiation process should've succeeded were the assigned engineer to have met proper setup guidelines." Still, it pushes the limits of the moribund subjunctive, so much so that I would actually expect "The initiation process should've succeeded if the assigned engineer had met proper setup guidelines." I still don't like it because it crams too
0SurferIs the following sentence correct?"The initiation process should've succeeded were the assigned engineer to meet proper setup guidelines."
No. It sounds like it's trying to be a third conditional.
The initiation process would have succeeded if the assigned engineer had met the proper setup guidelines.
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