I hope you've seen it, but if you haven't, I'd love to run it for you now. Is I'd grammatically correct here? Yes.
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CalifJimDoesn't it bother you that a present perfect tense in an if clause is used with would?Thanks, CJ. I understand would love = want to.
Isn't the past usually used with would in that case?
It is unusual.
AnonymousI think we can have the ''would' in the main clause to indicate the future event like this.No. The "would" does not indicate futurity. It combines with "love" to form an idiom "would love (to)", which takes place in present time and is a weakened form of
I hope you've seen it, but if you haven't, I'd love to run it for you tomorrow
AnonymousI hope you've seen it, but if you haven't, I want to run it for you tomorrow.No. Type 3 has "If ... had ..., ... would have ...".
I think the above two are a type 3 conditional.
LiveinjapanI think the sentence is technically not a conditionalYes. You can make a case for that.
Liveinjapan"I'm going to get a beer if you want some" and "I'll get a beer if you want some" are a bit different in meanig.
The former indicates the speaker is going to get a beer whether the listener wants some or not, while the la