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Perfect Stranger Posted 3 years ago
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"...to have stopped Hitler once he came to power"
Hello there,
I'm watching this documentary called "Could Hitler have been stopped?" and one of the historians says:
"It was going to be extremely difficult to have stopped Hitler once he came to power"
I've highlighted in green the structure I'm unfamiliar with. Why doesn't the speaker simply say: ’it was going to be extremely difficult to stop Hitler once he came to power‘?
Thanks!
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Perfect Stranger Why doesn't the speaker simply say: ’it was going to be extremely difficult to stop Hitler once he came to power‘? He misspoke. Nobody would say it that way if they had time to think.
- Perfect Stranger Why doesn't the speaker simply say: ’it was going to be extremely difficult to stop Hitler once he came to power‘?
- He misspoke.
- Nobody would say it that way if they had time to think.
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Perfect StrangerWhy doesn't the speaker simply say: ’it was going to be extremely difficult to stop Hitler once he came to power‘?
He misspoke. Nobody would say it that way if they had time to think.
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