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Pructus Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Time adverbials in the Past Perfect

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If he did that last year, he would be rich now.

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Here, as “last year” is used to reveal the time of his doing that was last year, isn’t the sentence correct, without a need to be changed to “If he had done that last year, ~ ”?

  

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pructus Here, as “last year” is used to reveal the time of his doing that was last year, isn’t the sentence correct, No, because its logic fails. If he did that last year, then he is rich now. If he had done that last year, he would be rich now.

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  • pructus Here, as “last year” is used to reveal the time of his doing that was last year, isn’t the sentence correct, No, because its logic fails.
  • If he did that last year, then he is rich now.
  • If he had done that last year, he would be rich now.
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pructusHere, as “last year” is used to reveal the time of his doing that was last year, isn’t the sentence correct,

No, because its logic fails.

If he did that last year, then he is rich now.

If he had done that last year, he

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