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Jonathan1 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Improper use of the 3rd conditional?

Hello, I encountered the following sentence: 
"If you hadn't told us, you'd be dead meat."
As I understand, the 3rd conditional is used here,
so souldn't it be written as
"If you hadn't told us, you'd have been dead meat."?

Thanks in advance!
  

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I don't see any problem with it. If you hadn't told us, you'd be dead meat (now). If you hadn't told us, you'd have been dead meat (then).

— GPY

  • I don't see any problem with it.
  • If you hadn't told us, you'd be dead meat (now).
  • If you hadn't told us, you'd have been dead meat (then).
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I don't see any problem with it.

If you hadn't told us, you'd be dead meat (now).
If you hadn't told us, you'd have been dead meat (then).
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I understand, thank you.
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