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Inchoateknowledge Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

if only

I would have come if only you had rung me.
Can if only be used this way? Strange.
Or does this sentence mean other than it was my wish you rang me because than I could have come, which/what I wanted so much.
2nd question: which or what?
  

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I would have come if only you had rung me. This is correct, but it means something else: You just had to call me, and I would have come. ) or in a modified version of your interpretation: I wish you had rung me, then I would have come.

— Marius Hancu

  • I would have come if only you had rung me.
  • This is correct, but it means something else: You just had to call me, and I would have come.
  • ) or in a modified version of your interpretation: I wish you had rung me, then I would have come.
  • ) Or in other words: The only condition for my arrival was that you had called me.
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I would have come if only you had rung me.

This is correct, but it means something else:

You just had to call me, and I would have come. (But you didn't call.)

or in a modified version of your interpretation:

I wish you had rung me, then I would have come. (You didn't call.)

Or in other words:
The only
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Answer to the second question: definitely which. What doesn't make sense here at all.
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PastsimpleAnswer to the second question: definitely which. What doesn't make sense here at all.



What I must do is write a letter (correct) = Write a letter is what I must do (correct) = I could have come, what I wanted so much.
I see analogy between the two examples.
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Inchoateknowledge
PastsimpleAnswer to the second question: definitely which. What doesn't make sense here at all.



What I must do is write a letter (correct) = Write a letter is what I must do (correct) = I could have come, what I wanted so much.
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