Condtional Sentences

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1) It should have been evenely poised and indeed Pakistan could have been in sight of a win

2) The logical course should have been to do so in all their manifestations,especially when it is concerned the supernatural.

3) History would have been in a distorted shaped as it is today if people,rather than rulers,had written autobiographies.

I am getting problem in these sentences that how to use conditions and when in GRAMMAR,so plzz help me and explain mee..

THANX

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1) It should have been evenely poised and indeed Pakistan could have been in sight of a win

JTT: Look at this counterfactual by seeing its opposite which is the truth. Let me provide the opposite, the truth and we'll see if that helps.

It should have been evenely poised and indeed Pakistan could have been in sight of a win

It wasn't evenly poised and Pakistan wasn't in sight of a win.

2) The logical course should have been to do so in all their manifestations,especially when it is concerned the supernatural.

REAL [in the speaker's opinion]: The logical course wasn't followed.

3) History would have been in a distorted shaped as it is today if people,rather than rulers,had written autobiographies.

REAL [again in the speaker's opinion]: History isn't in a distorted shape. The people didn't write the autobiographies.

I am getting problem in these sentences that how to use conditions and when in GRAMMAR,so plzz help me and explain mee..

JTT: These examples are all counterfactuals, like two sides of a coin. One side is the truth [at least in the speaker's opinion] and the other side of the coin represents the unreal/ the opposite to fact. For every true there is an untrue and vice versa.

I'm not you [true] but if I were you, I would be nissa [untrue].

I don't live where nissa does [true] but if I lived there I would live in {_____} [untrue].

I'm a male [true] but if I weren't a male, I would have to be a female [untrue].

I ate an omelette this morning [true] but if I hadn't eaten one, I would/probably would/may/might have had a {____} [untrue].

See nissa, any fact can be discussed as a non fact; any non fact can be discussed as a fact. That's why we use conditionals. These counterfactuals represent one far end of the spectrum where only unreal/untrue/etc exists. This spectrum flows from the unreal to the very real.

When I eat omelettes, I get an upset stomach. >>>>>

to the person who never eats omelettes, so then this person talks about the same situation in a speculative/nonreal manner >>>>>>>>

If I ate an omellete I would/probably would/may/might get an upset stomach.

Hope this has helped, nissa.

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