Third conditional?
"He has been ineluctably dishonest," Mr Parker said. "He went to Direct Line and didn't make a disclosure about his claims history because he knew he wouldn't have been insured.
Is this third conditional?
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anonymous Is this third conditional? No, because there is no if -clause. However, there is a third conditional that drives the logic of that sentence, so to speak.
- anonymous Is this third conditional?
- No, because there is no if -clause.
- However, there is a third conditional that drives the logic of that sentence, so to speak.
- In other words, the writer assumes we know this: If he had made a disclosure of his claims history, he wouldn't have been insured.
- If we don't know that, the sentence doesn't make sense.
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anonymousIs this third conditional?
No, because there is no if-clause.
However, there is a third conditional that drives the logic of that sentence, so to speak. In other words, the writer assumes we know this:
If he had made a disclosure of his claims history, he wouldn't have been insured.
If we don't know that, the senten
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