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Bmojtaba Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Third conditional

'we'd be out of here by now if you'd have told the truth'

Is the above sentence third conditional??which form is this?
  

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The sentence is suspect with 'would' in the 'if clause. It reads better aa: We'd (We would) be out of here by now if you'd (you had) told the truth . It is 3rd Conditional.

— Mister Micawber

  • The sentence is suspect with 'would' in the 'if clause.
  • It reads better aa: We'd (We would) be out of here by now if you'd (you had) told the truth .
  • It is 3rd Conditional.
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The sentence is suspect with 'would' in the 'if clause. It reads better aa:

We'd (We would) be out of here by now if you'd (you had) told the truth.

It is 3rd Conditional.
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bmojtabaIs the sentence above third conditional?
The third conditional concerns only past situations, but you are talking about both the past and the present, so I’d call it a mixed conditional (a mixture of the second conditional and the third conditional).
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Mister MicawberThe sentence is suspect with 'would' in the 'if clause.
Interestingly, In British English, that 'd in the 'if' clause is a contraction of had, not would. We see this clearly when the uncontracted form is used for emphasis - if you had've told the truth. Universally condemned as 'substandard' or 'uneducated', it is no
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fivejedjonIn British English, that 'd in the 'if' clause is a contraction of had, not would
Yes, it must be an international mix-up, with some AmE substandardees saying 'if you would of..'
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