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Ahmedali111 Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
"if" in tellling stories
plse could you tell me how to distinguish between the real and unreal case in narrtion, since the auther always uses the past tense ,and past tense in conditional sentences always mean unreal condition. for example ,I read : He needed a palce to setlte in. if he had money he would buy that hoUse.
is that exaple was this real case: he needs apalce . if he has money , he will buy that house .
but fsince its telling a stoty it is expressed in past tense?
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it was an unreal condition in itself : he needs a plce. if he had money he would buy that house
is that exaple was this real case: he needs apalce . if he has money , he will buy that house .
but fsince its telling a stoty it is expressed in past tense?
or
it was an unreal condition in itself : he needs a plce. if he had money he would buy that house
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Past possible: He needed a place to stay; if he had money, he would buy that house. Past impossible: He needed a place to stay; if he had had money, he would have bought that house. Present possible: He needs a place to stay; if he has money, he will buy that house .
- Past possible: He needed a place to stay; if he had money, he would buy that house.
- Past impossible: He needed a place to stay; if he had had money, he would have bought that house.
- Present possible: He needs a place to stay; if he has money, he will buy that house .
- Present impossible: He needs a place to stay; if he had money, he would buy that house.
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Past possible: He needed a place to stay; if he had money, he would buy that house.
Past impossible: He needed a place to stay; if he had had money, he would have bought that house.
Present possible: He needs a place to stay; if he has money, he will buy that house.
Present impossible: He needs a place to stay; if he had money, he would buy that house
Past impossible: He needed a place to stay; if he had had money, he would have bought that house.
Present possible: He needs a place to stay; if he has money, he will buy that house.
Present impossible: He needs a place to stay; if he had money, he would buy that house
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thank you mr , you really simplified the matter as it seemed to me difficult
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