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Tamguatlay Posted 5 years ago
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If I win/won a lottery....
If I win a lottery, I will buy a car.
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We say "the" lottery to mean any lottery. It's like the "the" in "the dictionary". The two forms are If I win the lottery, I will buy a car.
- We say "the" lottery to mean any lottery.
- It's like the "the" in "the dictionary".
- The two forms are If I win the lottery, I will buy a car.
- If I won the lottery, I would buy a car.
- There is a less likely context wherein you have a lottery ticket, and the drawing has taken place, but you haven't checked the results yet.
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We say "the" lottery to mean any lottery. It's like the "the" in "the dictionary".
The two forms are
If I win the lottery, I will buy a car.
If I won the lottery, I would buy a car.
There is a less likely context wherein you have a lottery ticket, and the drawing has taken place, but you haven't checked the results yet. In that case you could say "If I won the lottery,
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