Is the repetition of "would have been" here grammatical?
I know it's a little wordy, but is the following sentence grammatically correct?
"If we continued going up the mountain, our problem would have been that we would have been too tired."
If I wanted to avoid the repetition of "would have been", would the following be an acceptable substitute, or has changing "would have been" to "were" changed the meaning?
"If we continued going up the mountain, our problem would have been that we were too tired."
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JJDouglas If we had continued going up the mountain, our problem would have been that we would have been too tired. OK as shown. JJDouglas If we had continued going up the mountain, our problem would have been that we were too tired.
- JJDouglas If we had continued going up the mountain, our problem would have been that we would have been too tired.
- OK as shown.
- JJDouglas If we had continued going up the mountain, our problem would have been that we were too tired.
- Also OK as shown.
- Also, If we had continued (going) up the mountain, we would have gotten too tired.
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JJDouglasIf we had continued going up the mountain, our problem would have been that we would have been too tired.
OK as shown.
JJDouglasIf we had continued going up the mountain, our problem would have been that we were too tired.
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