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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
Grammar
Has or Had?
Friends,
Consider these dialogues:
What if something bad has happened to him?
What if something bad had happened to him?
My question is: when it's a speculative question, is 'had' alone acceptable? Or can we use both had and has?
Thanks.
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anonymous What if something bad has happened to him? This means that the effect of "something bad", if that happened, still prevails now. Often this sentence would be used about someone who is missing.
- anonymous What if something bad has happened to him?
- This means that the effect of "something bad", if that happened, still prevails now.
- Often this sentence would be used about someone who is missing.
- anonymous What if something bad had happened to him?
- This means that the effect of "something bad", if that happened, occurred in the past.
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anonymousWhat if something bad has happened to him?
This means that the effect of "something bad", if that happened, still prevails now. Often this sentence would be used about someone who is missing.
anonymousWhat if something bad had happened to him?
This means that the effect of "something bad", if that happened
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