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Chineselindsay Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

If it had been...

Dear teachers,
If it had been fine that day, we would have gone fishing.

If it is fine that day, we will go fishing.

Is the second sentence right?Are the two sentence express the same meaning?
Thank you in advance.
  

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Chineselindsay If it had been fine that day, we would have gone fishing. Hypothesis of the past. Immutable.

— Huevos

  • Chineselindsay If it had been fine that day, we would have gone fishing.
  • Hypothesis of the past.
  • Immutable.
  • The temporal marker has already closed.
  • If it is fine that day, we will go fishing.
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ChineselindsayIf it had been fine that day, we would have gone fishing. Hypothesis of the past. Immutable. The temporal marker has already closed.
If it is fine that day, we will go fishing. Future conditional. Still open to change.

Is the second sentence right?
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ChineselindsayAre Do the two sentences express the same meaning?
No.
If it is fine that day, we will go fishing. (That day has not yet come. We don't know yet whether we will go fishing.)
If it had been fine that day, we would have gone fishing. (That day has already come and gone
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Thank you CJ and H.
I do understand. ^_^
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the meaning of if differs according to its tenses this can be explain as follows:
if + present means it is probable = it can be done , Ex. if it is fine .........
if+ past simple tense means it is not probable now. Ex. if it were fine .........
if+ past perfect tense means it was impossible .....ago. Ex. if it had been fine .........
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