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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Difference between Would have+ed VS Would have been +ing (in conditional)

I cant just understand a difference in these sentences

  • If the weather had been better (but it wasn't), I would have been sitting in the garden when he arrived (but I wasn't).
  • If she hadn't got a job in London (but she did), she would have been working in Paris (but she wasn't).
  • now what is the difference
  • If the weather had been better (but it wasn't), I would have sat in the garden when he arrived (but I wasn't).

  • If she hadn't got a job in London (but she did), she would have worked in paris (but she wasn’t)

  

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I would have been sitting in the garden when he arrived. The scene would have been like this: I was sitting in the garden. Then he arrived.

— CalifJim

  • I would have been sitting in the garden when he arrived.
  • The scene would have been like this: I was sitting in the garden.
  • Then he arrived.
  • I would have sat in the garden when he arrived.
  • The scene would have been like this: He arrived.
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I would have been sitting in the garden when he arrived.

The scene would have been like this: I was sitting in the garden. Then he arrived.

I would have sat in the garden when he arrived.

The scene would have been like this: He arrived. Then I went to the garden and sat down there.

She would have been working in Paris.

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