If push came to shove
If push came to shove, he was quite happy to do nothing.
Is that sentence grammatical and the conditional one?
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It should be conditional: If push came to shove, he'd be quite happy to do nothing .
- It should be conditional: If push came to shove, he'd be quite happy to do nothing .
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It should be conditional:
If push came to shove, he'd be quite happy to do nothing.
0tkacka15If push came to shove, he was quite happy to do nothing.
Is that sentence grammatical and the conditional one?
For me, this sentence is OK for talking about past behaviour. I understand the meaning to be similar to "When push came to shove, he was quite happy to do nothing".
0tkacka15If push came to shove, he was quite happy to do nothing.
Is that sentence grammatical
and the conditional one?
and a "first conditional"?
(I'm pretty sure you meant to ask if the sentence was a first conditional.)
It's the past tense of a first conditional, and unfortunately for us and our classification
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