Did you know anyone who...
1) When you started work at our office, did you know anyone who died in a car accident?
Can't that sentence mean two things:
1a) When you started work at our office, did you know anyone who had died in a car accident?
1b) When you started work at our office, did you know anyone who would die in a car accident?
Gratefully,
Navi
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navitasan Can't that sentence mean two things: Well, technically, yes, but I had to put my thinking cap on to get your second interpretation. navitasan 1a) When you started work at our office, did you know anyone who had died in a car accident? This is a verb-tense snakepit when you start analyzing it.
- navitasan Can't that sentence mean two things: Well, technically, yes, but I had to put my thinking cap on to get your second interpretation.
- navitasan 1a) When you started work at our office, did you know anyone who had died in a car accident?
- This is a verb-tense snakepit when you start analyzing it.
- When you look at it, you can't know a dead person, so you would have had to have known them.
- See what I mean?
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navitasanCan't that sentence mean two things:
Well, technically, yes, but I had to put my thinking cap on to get your second interpretation.
navitasan1a) When you started work at our office, did you know anyone who had died in a car accident?
This is a verb-tense snakepit when you start analyzing it. When you look
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