Using “imagine” and “assuming” for hypothetical situations
1- Imagine that I had some money yesterday, it would have been so fun to go there. (I didn't have money so we didn't go there yesterday.)
2- Assuming that I was the guy whom they were looking for yesterday, would they have beaten me? (I wasn't the guy they were looking for.)
I don't know if my examples are good enough to convey my purpose.
Can I use these them, "imagine" and "assuming", in hypotetchical situations in the past with using past simple?
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mango pen 189 1- Imagine that I had some money yesterday, it would have been so fun to go there. ) The form "imagine" in that context is an imperative, so it creates a separate sentence. Also, given how the second sentence continues, you really need "had had", the past perfect, here.
- mango pen 189 1- Imagine that I had some money yesterday, it would have been so fun to go there.
- ) The form "imagine" in that context is an imperative, so it creates a separate sentence.
- Also, given how the second sentence continues, you really need "had had", the past perfect, here.
- Imagine that I had had some money yesterday.
- It would have been so (much) fun to go there.
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mango pen 1891- Imagine that I had some money yesterday, it would have been so fun to go there. (I didn't have money so we didn't go there yesterday.)
The form "imagine" in that context is an imperative, so it creates a separate sentence. Also, given how the second sentence continues, you really need "had had", the past perfect, here.
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