Please help me.
I thought she would’ve told you about it.
Here in the sentence above, did ‘she telling you about it’ happen before my thinking ‘I thought’? I am having hard time figuring out which happened first “I thought” or the second part “she would’ve told you about it”. Please help me. Also is the sentence correct?
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anonymous I am having hard time figuring out which happened first The problem is that it's possible — even likely — that nothing happened first. That is, there is no first action. There's only your saying what you thought.
- anonymous I am having hard time figuring out which happened first The problem is that it's possible — even likely — that nothing happened first.
- That is, there is no first action.
- There's only your saying what you thought.
- What you thought was that at some time in the past she (had) said something about it to the person you're talking to.
- But it's an action you imagine, not necessarily an action which actually took place.
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anonymousI am having hard time figuring out which happened first
The problem is that it's possible — even likely — that nothing happened first. That is, there is no first action. There's only your saying what you thought.
What you thought was that at some time in the past she (had) said something about it to the person you're talking to. But it's a
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