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Seeker08 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

If it was

If it was for me to decide in which hotel to stay, it'd have been the one we examined first.

Is the sentence correct and why? THANK YOU.
  

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Simply editing your version: seeker08 If it were up to me to decide which hotel to stay in, it would have been the one we examined first. " Maybe because "it'd" sounds so ugly - "itid" - and contractions are supposed to flow, not get stopped up. The inversion "in which hotel to stay" instead of "which hotel to stay iin" sounds so awkward.

— BarbaraPA

  • Simply editing your version: seeker08 If it were up to me to decide which hotel to stay in, it would have been the one we examined first.
  • " Maybe because "it'd" sounds so ugly - "itid" - and contractions are supposed to flow, not get stopped up.
  • The inversion "in which hotel to stay" instead of "which hotel to stay iin" sounds so awkward.
  • The idea about not ending sentences with prepositions is without foundation.
  • Now, here's how I would really say is: If I'd gotten to pick which hotel we'd stay in, I would've chosen that first one we looked at.
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Simply editing your version:
seeker08If it were up to me to decide which hotel to stay in, it would have been the one we examined first.


I can't tell you why, but I would never say "it'd have been" but rather "it would've been." Maybe because "it'd" sounds so ugly - "itid" - and contractions are supposed to flow, not get stopped up.
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Thank you so much for the nice explanation Emotion: smile I didn't expect the faults you mentioned
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Don't worry - the number of people (native speakers) who say "If I was" instead of "If I were" is very high. If you said "It's the subjunctive, so you need 'were'" they would look at you as if you had two heads.
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