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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

Wanted

"If the Scottish parliament decided they wanted to have a referendum, then it would be wrong for Westminster to block it." (The Guardian.)

Is the verb "wanted" a backshift from "want" or is it hypothetical "would want" in the conditional above?

  
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