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Cocoa Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Subjunctive

Can I say something like this "I though it would have been a piece of cake, but it didn't."?

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There is one small error: I thought it would have been a piece of cake, but it wasn’t . There is no use of the subjunctive here.

  • There is one small error: I thought it would have been a piece of cake, but it wasn’t .
  • There is no use of the subjunctive here.
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There is one small error: I thought it would have been a piece of cake, but it wasn’t.

There is no use of the subjunctive here.

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