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Robin5 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
Use of tenses with for the last three days
Hello,
Could you please tell me whether or not you think the sentence following is correct, or perhaps it might be ungrammatical but used in spoken English.
"If only we had heard the weather forecast. We wouldn’t be stranded in the village for the last three days”.
Many thanks in advance,
Robin5
Top answer
Correct grammar is this. "If only we had heard the weather forecast. We wouldn’t have been stranded in the village for the last three days ”.
- Correct grammar is this.
- "If only we had heard the weather forecast.
- We wouldn’t have been stranded in the village for the last three days ”.
- But some native speakers would say your original version.
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Correct grammar is this.
"If only we had heard the weather forecast. We wouldn’t have been stranded in the village for the last three days”.
But some native speakers would say your original version.
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