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Maple Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Subjunctive and condition

0(A) If you joined yesterday's game, you would win.02br
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00(B) If you had joined yesterday's game, you would win.02br
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00(C) If you had joined yesterday's game, you would have won.02br
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00Which ones are correct?02br
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00I guess sentence (A) can also be correct while saying it I don't feel pity or sorry, and just state a past condition. Does it make any sense?02br
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00Maybe I've mixed several rules up. Waiting for your illuminative clarification. Thank you very, very much!!0-
  

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--01font 00Correct. 02font 02br 02br 01font 00You are talking about a past situation so C and B are hypothetical, based on supposition situations which means you have to say the past form of the chosen tense. 02font 0-

— Doll

  • --01font 00Correct.
  • 02font 02br 02br 01font 00You are talking about a past situation so C and B are hypothetical, based on supposition situations which means you have to say the past form of the chosen tense.
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0 A) If you joined yesterday's game, you would win01font00.---wrong.02font02br
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00(B) If you had joined yesterday's game, you would win.----01font00if you add 01i00now02i00 next to 01i00win 02i00it will be okay, but still will sound a bit strange.02font
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0 For the purposes of discussion I will assume that you are using "join the game" as "play the game", "participate in the game" (not merely sign up to play a game later).02br
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00 A. if ... joined (yesterday), ... would win (in future). Impossible!02br
00 A2. if ... joined (tomorrow), ... would win (in future). OK.02br
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00 B. i
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0Hi, Jim 02br
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00Thanks a million (,which is not enough) for your patience and valuable time to solve my kinda silly puzzles.02br
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00Your delicately arranged explanations are very helpful.02br
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00I used to believe I’d grasped that because I can choose almost all the correct answers to the questions of this part in tests. But
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0 I don't know the context but "01i00you 01font00could 02font00have won" 02i00might be a better choice01i00. 02i00"01i00You 01font00would 02font00have won02i00" expresses certainty while "01i00you 01font
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01cite10Bokeh12cite10I don't know the context but "11i10you 11font10could 12font10have won" 12i10might be a better choice11i10. 12i10"11i10You 11font10would 12font10have won12i10"
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They voted to accept the minutes on condition that all corrections BE made.

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They voted to accept the minutes on condition that all corrections ARE made.

Thanks. w

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