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Bbk_agp Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

if we didn't go to their party next week...

Hi everyone,

I saw below sentence :
if we didn't go to their party next week, they would be very angry.

Why the sentence used "didn't " and "next week", past and future in a sentence?...

Thanks in advance
  

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Bbk_agp Why did the sentence use "didn't " and "next week", past and future in a sentence? Because the meaning of the tenses changes after "if". A past tense after "if" usually has a present or future-time meaning.

— CalifJim

  • Bbk_agp Why did the sentence use "didn't " and "next week", past and future in a sentence?
  • Because the meaning of the tenses changes after "if".
  • A past tense after "if" usually has a present or future-time meaning.
  • That's what you have in your example here.
  • CJ
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Bbk_agpWhy did the sentence use "didn't " and "next week", past and future in a sentence?
Because the meaning of the tenses changes after "if". A past tense after "if" usually has a present or future-time meaning. That's what you have in your example here.

CJ
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