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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
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Guarantee: Duracell guarantees these batteries against ...

1b00Guarantee:02b00 Duracell guarantees these batteries against defects in materials and workmanship. 01b01i01font00Should any device be damaged02font02i02b00 due to a battery defect, we will repair or replace it at our option.02br
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01font00This sentence02font00 01b01i01font00Should any device be damaged02font02i02b00 01font00doesn't make any sense to me. Why is 01i00should 02i00being used?02font02br
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00If it were up to me I will write above 01i00guarantee02i00 in the following words:02br
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01font01b00Guarantee:02b00 Duracell guarantees these batteries against defects in materials and02font00 01font00workmanship. If02font01b01i01font00 any device is damaged02font02i02b00 01font00due to a battery defect, we will repair or replace it at our option.02font02br
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0 I would say it means: 01i 00if, weather, in case02i 0-

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0 I would say it means: 01i00if, weather, in case02i0-
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0 Thank you Amy for correcting me.0-
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0Here is another sentence of that kind quoting from a certain book:02br
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0 Yes, in your sentence "had you been talking" means the same thing as "if you had been talking". 02br
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00You've probably also noticed that these "if-less" forms of if-sentences also require inversion: 02br
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