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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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"Companies could provide better management training if they'd have different programs for men and women, writes Dorothy Dalton, a partner at Hansar Transition Services." Shouldn't she write "companies could provide better management training if they HAD different programs..."?
  

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There is a subtle difference between the sentences: The "they'd have" sentence really means "They would have" and denotes a lack of will to provide the seperate training courses. Although this would more likely be expressed "if only they'd have" "if they HAD different programs" is less emotive and can be used to express a situaion where the company may not appreciate that running seperate courses might be adventageous.

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  • There is a subtle difference between the sentences: The "they'd have" sentence really means "They would have" and denotes a lack of will to provide the seperate training courses.
  • Although this would more likely be expressed "if only they'd have" "if they HAD different programs" is less emotive and can be used to express a situaion where the company may not appreciate that running seperate courses might be adventageous.
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There is a subtle difference between the sentences:

The "they'd have" sentence really means "They would have" and denotes a lack of will to provide the seperate training courses. Although this would more likely be expressed "if only they'd have"

"if they HAD different programs" is less emotive and can be used to express a situaion where the company may not appreciate that runnin
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