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Khoshtip Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

past perfect

In this sentence:

She acts excited, as though she had received some wonderful news.

Isn't has received a more correct choice here, please?
  

Top answer

The backshifting to "had received" can be justified by the unreal nature of "as though".

— GPY

  • The backshifting to "had received" can be justified by the unreal nature of "as though".
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The backshifting to "had received" can be justified by the unreal nature of "as though".
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And so as is "as if" and also the "if" (in conditional forms). I would think that nature is unreal only from non-native English people's point of view, I wouldn't think it is the same from the native ones as well!
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Both 'as if' and 'as though' operate the same way. After these you can find almost any tense.

CJ
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