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Ahmedali111 Posted 19 years ago
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if you were to do sth, ....

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— Marius Hancu

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00 as far as I know it's a more formal alternative to "If you did something...", and can be used to refer to hypothetical future events: "Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever."02br
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00 Now we have to wait for some native speaker, since I'm not sure of this two points:02br
00 - if the structure "
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0 Thank you all . Its become preTty claer now . Native or non-native ,kooyeen , Ihave to say your answers are as useful as nativespeakers thmselves. 0-
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10 Now we have to wait for some native speaker, since I'm not sure of this two points:12br
10 - if the structure "were to do" is actually formal12br
10 - if you can refer to an hypothetical future event just using the usual structure "If someone did..." (If I died tom
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0Hello K.,02br
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001. If you were to do X, Y would happen.02br
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002. If I did X, Y would happen.02br
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00In BrE, you'll find both structures in both formal and informal contexts.02br
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00For instance, both would be appropriate in an academic publication; and sports commentators also use both.02br
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