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Hans51 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
'S + had p.p, if S + past tense...'
"The country had threatened to call off the plan, if Seoul went ahead with its joint military drills with Washington at the end of this month."
I have seen some strange sentence in grammar and this is different from what I have learned so far, so I need your help again.
If S + past tense , S would, could, etc verbs..
If he wanted to study it, he would do it.
But what is the sentence structure, 'S + had p.p, if S + past tense...'
Is the structure okay or is it a grammar mistake? What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much.
I have seen some strange sentence in grammar and this is different from what I have learned so far, so I need your help again.
If S + past tense , S would, could, etc verbs..
If he wanted to study it, he would do it.
But what is the sentence structure, 'S + had p.p, if S + past tense...'
Is the structure okay or is it a grammar mistake? What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much.
Top answer
"The country had threatened (They in fact did make the threat. " (The comma was misplaced. Here it is when the infinitive clause is changed to a full clause: They threatened that they would call off the plan if Seoul went ahead with its joint military drills with Washington at the end of this month.
- "The country had threatened (They in fact did make the threat.
- " (The comma was misplaced.
- Here it is when the infinitive clause is changed to a full clause: They threatened that they would call off the plan if Seoul went ahead with its joint military drills with Washington at the end of this month.
- Or: They threatened that if Seoul went ahead with its joint military drills with Washington at the end of this month, they would call off the plan.
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"The country had threatened (They in fact did make the threat. This part is not hypothetical.)
This is the conditional statement, converted to an infinitive clause:
to call off the plan if Seoul went ahead with its joint military drills with Washington at the end of this month." (The comma was misplaced.
Here it is when the infinitive clause is cha
This is the conditional statement, converted to an infinitive clause:
to call off the plan if Seoul went ahead with its joint military drills with Washington at the end of this month." (The comma was misplaced.
Here it is when the infinitive clause is cha
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