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TeacherJapan Posted 4 years ago
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Is this a correct sentence?

If I were you, I wouldn’t have done such a boring job.

  

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teacherJapan If I were you, I wouldn’t have done such a boring job. teacherJapan Is this a correct sentence? Yes.

— CalifJim

  • teacherJapan If I were you, I wouldn’t have done such a boring job.
  • teacherJapan Is this a correct sentence?
  • Yes.
  • You might expect If I had been you, I wouldn't have done such a boring job.
  • which is also correct, but 'were' often substitutes for 'had been'.
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teacherJapan

If I were you, I wouldn’t have done such a boring job.

teacherJapan Is this a correct sentence?

Yes.

You might expect

If I had been you, I wouldn't have done such a boring job.

which is also correct, but 'were' often substitutes for 'had been'.

CJ

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teacherJapanIf I were you, I wouldn’t have done such a boring job.

I don't love it. "If I were you" normally begins a sentence that goes on to say something concrete you should do. It is not really literal. Your sentence sounds like the person made the thing boring on purpose. In my dialect, it would be simply "I wouldn’t have done such a boring job."

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