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Tenjing Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
What's the difference in meaning?
If he were alive, he would be seventy years now. Vs. If he had been alive, he would have been seventy years now.
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Big difference: the second one just isn't correct.
- Big difference: the second one just isn't correct.
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The second one is wrong? Is it because 'now' has been used there? You showed this kind of sentence to on other thread. Please check it out.
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Sorry!
If he had been alive, he would have been seventy years
I'm not sure why I misread this at the time. It is correct, but it is different from the other sentence in that we are now talking about the past. He lived, he died, and didn't make it to seventy.
If he had been alive, he would have been seventy years
I'm not sure why I misread this at the time. It is correct, but it is different from the other sentence in that we are now talking about the past. He lived, he died, and didn't make it to seventy.
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