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Kook j Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Past tense after pronoun
Hi.
Could you please let me know if we change verb's tense to past after pronoun in conditional sentence to make it sound unreal?
eg:
If I were somebody who cared deeply about social stability, economic prosperity, and sexual monogamy - I would want as many gay couples as possible to get married. (but I'm not one who cares those things.)
Thank you very much in advance.
Could you please let me know if we change verb's tense to past after pronoun in conditional sentence to make it sound unreal?
eg:
If I were somebody who cared deeply about social stability, economic prosperity, and sexual monogamy - I would want as many gay couples as possible to get married. (but I'm not one who cares those things.)
Thank you very much in advance.
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You needn't at all, but it is a common phenomenon, as the speaker's mind, I suppose, often takes the past form used for Conditional II as a normal past form referring to the past.
- You needn't at all, but it is a common phenomenon, as the speaker's mind, I suppose, often takes the past form used for Conditional II as a normal past form referring to the past.
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You needn't at all, but it is a common phenomenon, as the speaker's mind, I suppose, often takes the past form used for Conditional II as a normal past form referring to the past.
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