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Rotter Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

The cost of a product

I bought an item and paid about 400 dollars. It was a special offer. The ordinary price was almost 500 dollars.

1. If I had bought it for the ordinary price, it would cost me 500 dollars.

2. If I had bought it for the ordinary price, it would have cost me 500 dollars.

3. If I bought it for the ordinary price, it would cost me 500 dollars.

4. If I bought it for the ordinary price, it would have cost me 500 dollars.

This should be a subjunctive sentence.

Now I have made the purchase.

It is not possible to reverse it or rather I am not going to return it to the shop.

Are all my sentences fine?
  

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Use #2 for an event in the past. )

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Use #2 for an event in the past.

Use #3 for a future event (speculating about this event in the present.)
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Thanks AlpheccaStars

This is a past event which didn't materialize. So it should be the third conditional.

I was not born during the 1st and the 2nd world war.

8.If I had lived during the 2nd World War, I might/would have met/seen Hitler.

9.If I had borne
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RotterThis is a past event which didn't materialize. So it should be the third conditional.
Yes, you are correct. Here are some examples;

If I had graduated from university, I would have earned more money.

If he had sailed on the Titanic, he would have drowned.

I could have moved my own furniture if I had bought a truck instead
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