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Inchoateknowledge Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

subjunctive past

If I had known (yesterday), I would have done something about it.
Why is this sentence not regarded true past tense
  

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Because it did not happen. Thank me.

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Because it did not happen. Thank me.
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InchoateknowledgeIf I had known (yesterday), I would have done something about it.
Why is this sentence not regarded true past tense
I don't know what 'true past tense' is but your sentence doesn't have a single verb in the past tense. It would take a highly original grammarian to say the sentence is in the past tense. To my mind, v
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