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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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If there were time travel, we would have been aware of it.

If there were time travel, we would have been aware of it.

Is this structure possible? I saw it in a movie but it seems like there is some mistake in the sentence.

But I know that the structure of "If he had taken the doctor's advice, he might still be alive."

So what do you think about the first example? Does it make sense? Thank you so much as usual and have a good day.
  

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Anonymous If there were time travel, we would have been be aware of it. Is this structure possible? The original sentence is not correct.

  • Anonymous If there were time travel, we would have been be aware of it.
  • Is this structure possible?
  • The original sentence is not correct.
  • If there were even one incidence of time travel at any time in recorded history, we would still be aware of time travel.
  • "
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AnonymousIf there were time travel, we would have been be aware of it.
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Thank you so much, and it is possible that movie scripts are wrong by any chance?
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Also, I think that "If there had been time travel, we would have been aware of it." is okay to use. What do you think? Thank you so much.
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A: There is no such thing as time travel.

B: Well, there is.

A: No, there is not. Because if there were, a class-one senior agent such as myself would have been aware of it, wouldn't he have?

This is the dialogue of the movie and I was wondering if the structure of "Because if there were, a class-one senior agent such as myself would
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Anonymous Because if there were, a class-one senior agent such as myself would have been aware of it, wouldn't he have?
This would be referring to at least one specific alleged incidence of time trravel in the movie. Of course the conversation is not likely to occur in real life, at least not by sane people.
But movie grammar and real-life g

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