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Sundarnaz Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Third condition again

If I had mailed you before submitting my application, I would have known that your email was no longer active.??

Please, take a look at this to see if it's grammatical and natural.

Thanks.

  

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The conditional pattern is structurally correct. "known" refers to a past state of knowledge, not to the discovery that the email address was inactive (for that, you could use "discovered"). I'm not sure which you intend.

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  • The conditional pattern is structurally correct.
  • "known" refers to a past state of knowledge, not to the discovery that the email address was inactive (for that, you could use "discovered").
  • I'm not sure which you intend.
  • There is a hint that you may be using "email" to mean "email address", which I dislike.
  • (Even Google get this wrong.
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The conditional pattern is structurally correct. "known" refers to a past state of knowledge, not to the discovery that the email address was inactive (for that, you could use "discovered"). I'm not sure which you intend.

There is a hint that you may be using "email" to mean "email address", which I dislike. (Even Google get this wrong. At the Gmail login page, the prompt says "Enter you

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If I had emailed you a short message before submitting my application, I would have found out that your email account had been closed.
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