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Rizan Malik Posted 6 years ago
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If I had been, I could participate
Consider this sentence, please:
a) If I had been serious about music when I was young, today I could participate in the music show.
Is sentence a) correct or do we have to use "could have participated" instead? In other words, do we use the following construction in English?
IF+SUBJECT+HAD+PP, SUBJECT+ COULD/MIGHT/WOULD+BARE INFINITIVE.
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Rizan Malik a) If I had been serious about music when I was young, today I could participate in the music show. OK. ) In either case the statement is made before the music show.
- Rizan Malik a) If I had been serious about music when I was young, today I could participate in the music show.
- OK.
- ) In either case the statement is made before the music show.
- Rizan Malik a1) If I had been serious about music when I was young, today I could have participate d in the music show.
- Also OK.
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Rizan Malika) If I had been serious about music when I was young, today I could participate in the music show.
OK. (I'd say "I would be able to participate".) In either case the statement is made before the music show.
Rizan Malika1) If I had been serious about music when I was young,
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