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Haddie Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Is this correct?

"If you see the way he is with his teenage daughter, you'd know it's his philosophy for pretty much everything."
Is this sentence correct? What type of conditional is it?
  

Top answer

you would know ... is the second level of conditional sentence. What you have posted is an incorrect sentence.

— Philip

  • you would know ...
  • is the second level of conditional sentence.
  • What you have posted is an incorrect sentence.
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4 Answers
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If you saw....you would know... is the second level of conditional sentence. What you have posted is an incorrect sentence.
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Thank you Philip. I often see first form of verb in the main clause and would in the dependent clause. Is there ever a condition in which this is okay?
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One can understand it, and it's often confused in casual speech (Americans, at least, aren't really gifted in the use of the conditionals).
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Thank you Philip.
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