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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
if clauses
"We were bound together as tightly as two people can be. If it WERE for him, I don't think I would have lasted on the farm all these years."
Why they used "were"? Isn't it suppose to be "had been"?
Why they used "were"? Isn't it suppose to be "had been"?
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If it WERE for him, I don't think I would have lasted on the farm all these years."
Are you sure you have quoted this correctly? Is it actually this?
If it WERE'NT for him, I don't think I would have lasted on the farm all these years."
Are you sure you have quoted this correctly? Is it actually this?
If it WERE'NT for him, I don't think I would have lasted on the farm all these years."
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IMHO, you are right.
"If it had not been for him, I do not think that I would have lasted on the farm all these years."
"If it had not been for him, I do not think that I would have lasted on the farm all these years."
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Mixed conditional has already been discussed in one of the latest posts.
Your sentence is a present/ past mixed conditional.
Look at these sentences from englishpage.com :
If I were rich,I would have bought that Ferrari we saw yesterday.
But I'm not rich and th
Your sentence is a present/ past mixed conditional.
Look at these sentences from englishpage.com :
If I were rich,I would have bought that Ferrari we saw yesterday.
But I'm not rich and th
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James MIMHO, you are right."If it had not been for him, I do not think that I would have lasted on the farm all these years."There is nothing "mixed' about James' example. It is a pure 3rd conditional, perfectly executed. " I don't think I would have lasted " works as " I wouldn't have lasted in my opinion".
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