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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Mixed conditionals -question


Hi,

I am confused about one sentence – mixed conditionals:



If I (meet) ………. you before, my life (be) ………. different.



Any possible cases…??


Thanks in advance
  

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I'm not entirely sure what your question is, but the following sentence is perfectly acceptable if you want to refer to what your life is like now : If I had met you before, my life would be different. That sentence also suggests to me that the two people have just met. --------------------------- If you want to refer to the way your life has been up to now ( or to the way your life was up until the time you met the person), then you can say this: If I had met you before, my life would have been different.

— Yankee

  • I'm not entirely sure what your question is, but the following sentence is perfectly acceptable if you want to refer to what your life is like now : If I had met you before, my life would be different.
  • That sentence also suggests to me that the two people have just met.
  • --------------------------- If you want to refer to the way your life has been up to now ( or to the way your life was up until the time you met the person), then you can say this: If I had met you before, my life would have been different.
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I'm not entirely sure what your question is, but the following sentence is perfectly acceptable if you want to refer to what your life is like now:

If I had met you before, my life would be different.

That sentence also suggests to me that the two people have just met.

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is it possible to write this sentence as:

If I hadn't met you before, my life would be different.

what do u think about it?
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That combination of verb forms is possible, but I'd either omit the word "before" or add more detail (i.e. before what?):

- If I hadn't met you, my life would be different.

- If I hadn't met you before I decided to move to Germany, my life would be different (now).
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I understand u, but this sentence is cut off the text & is used only to make grammatically correct sentence and that’s all.

I am asking if this sentence is grammatically correct? Does it make any sense?



If I hadn’t met you before, my life would be different.
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