Mixed condition
if the comic book --- by now, I would have lent you.
A. arrived
B. had arrived
Because "now" appears in if-clause, so I choose A to suit mixed conditional sentence,
or because the action "I would have lent you" must happen after "the comic book had arrived" so we use past perfect in if-clause?
Top answer
o Lê Quô´c Because "now" appears in if-clause, It is not 'now'; it is 'by now'—a time before now. o Lê Quô´c because the action "I would have lent you" must happen after "the comic book had arrived" so we use past perfect in if-clause? That is the wrong argument.
- o Lê Quô´c Because "now" appears in if-clause, It is not 'now'; it is 'by now'—a time before now.
- o Lê Quô´c because the action "I would have lent you" must happen after "the comic book had arrived" so we use past perfect in if-clause?
- That is the wrong argument.
- If one event must happen after another event, then simple past is used, not past perfect.
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Ba?o Lê Quô´cBecause "now" appears in if-clause,
It is not 'now'; it is 'by now'—a time before now.
Ba?o Lê Quô´cbecause the action "I would have lent you" must happen after "the comic book had arrived" so we use past perfect in if-clause?
That is the wrong argument. If one event must happen after another event, t
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