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Jack112 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Past Perfect / Past

Are these correct? If not, why? What do they mean?
1. If I knew I was going to end up here, I would have asked for a lot more. (I saw this one in the movie. What does it mean compared to #2?)
2. If I had known I was going to end up here, I would have asked for a lot more.

Thanks.
  

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The correct is ....... 1. If I knew I was going to end up here, I would ask for a lot more.

— Spring_girl

  • The correct is .......
  • 1.
  • If I knew I was going to end up here, I would ask for a lot more.
  • (There's no "have" because of rule of grammar that is If + subject + v2 + ........
  • ) 2.
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The correct is .......
1. If I knew I was going to end up here, I would ask for a lot more.
(There's no "have" because of rule of grammar that is If + subject + v2 + ........ , subject + would + v1 +..............)

2. It is correct.

Different:
number1 used for something probably happens or you can imagine.
number2 It's just imagine and it can't happen anyway
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Jack,

In the first, the past substitutes for the more common past perfect.
Such substitutions are not that rare. Both sentences have the exact same meaning.

CJ
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