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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Conditionals
What variant is correct in the following situation (taken from a test, alas!, without answers)?
My brother says there was no way to help Betty. I am, however, not so sure about it. For example if we .......... her the money she needed.
a) had given
b) gave
c) would give
d) would have given
I hesitate between two variants - a or b, but variant a seems to be correct as we never helped her. Am I right? Thank you in advance, I'm learning English and sometimes it's really difficult to understand your beautiful language without help)
My brother says there was no way to help Betty. I am, however, not so sure about it. For example if we .......... her the money she needed.
a) had given
b) gave
c) would give
d) would have given
I hesitate between two variants - a or b, but variant a seems to be correct as we never helped her. Am I right? Thank you in advance, I'm learning English and sometimes it's really difficult to understand your beautiful language without help)
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Anonymous I hesitate between two variants - a or b Me, too. The implicit conditional, it seems to me, is 1) There [was/would be] a way to help Betty if we gave her money. (assuming Betty is still in a position to be helped) OR 2) There would have been a way to help Betty if we had given her money.
- Anonymous I hesitate between two variants - a or b Me, too.
- The implicit conditional, it seems to me, is 1) There [was/would be] a way to help Betty if we gave her money.
- (assuming Betty is still in a position to be helped) OR 2) There would have been a way to help Betty if we had given her money.
- (assuming the situation has completely passed) The tense combination My brother says there was no way seems to favor the second version above.
- So if I had to choose, I would choose a).
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AnonymousI hesitate between two variants - a or bMe, too. The implicit conditional, it seems to me, is
1) There [was/would be] a way to help Betty if we gave her money. (assuming Betty is still in a position to be helped)
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2) There would have been a way to help Betty if we had given her money. (assuming the situation has com
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Thank you very much for your help!
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