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Stenka25 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
IS vs. WERE
The site below has this sentence as follows, “If Canton is destroyed, the nation might fall.”
http://webfs1.kice.re.kr/sunung/2013_9/q3.pdf
Don’t you think the verb of If-clause seems to have a grammatical error?
Like the sentence below the verb “is” of the statement above should be changed to “were” or at least “was” since these days “was” can replace “were” in this kind of sentence except for a sterotyped phrase “if I were you.”
He also stated that if Iraq's chemical weapons were not destroyed, they might fall into the hands of terrorists, which would lead to an uncertain future.
http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/World-Leaders-2003/Uzbekistan-FOREIGN-POLICY.html#b
What do you think of my thought?
http://webfs1.kice.re.kr/sunung/2013_9/q3.pdf
Don’t you think the verb of If-clause seems to have a grammatical error?
Like the sentence below the verb “is” of the statement above should be changed to “were” or at least “was” since these days “was” can replace “were” in this kind of sentence except for a sterotyped phrase “if I were you.”
He also stated that if Iraq's chemical weapons were not destroyed, they might fall into the hands of terrorists, which would lead to an uncertain future.
http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/World-Leaders-2003/Uzbekistan-FOREIGN-POLICY.html#b
What do you think of my thought?
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Hi, Stenka25 Don’t you think the verb of If-clause seems to have a grammatical error? No, I think it's fine. It simply seems to me to be the first conditional.
- Hi, Stenka25 Don’t you think the verb of If-clause seems to have a grammatical error?
- No, I think it's fine.
- It simply seems to me to be the first conditional.
- Regars
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Regars
Stenka25 Don’t you think the verb of If-clause seems to have a grammatical error?No, I think it's fine. It simply seems to me to be the first conditional.
Regars
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