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If I saw him dancing on the street, I would join him.is this sentence related to future imagination or present imagination? Thank you.

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If I saw him dancing on the street, I would join him.
is this sentence related to future imagination or present imagination? Thank you.

The time of imagining is the present, the moment of uttering the sentence. The moment of carrying out what is imagined is any time from the moment of uttering the sentence until the end of time. The idea of "future imagination" doesn't make a lot of sense.

When is the speaker imagining that he would join this person if this person were dancing in the street? At the moment he says the sentence.

When is the speaker going to join this person who is dancing in the street? Whenever he sees him dancing in the street, and he'll be watching out to see if this person is dancing in the street starting at the moment he says the sentence.

CJ

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