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Sofiane Time Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Which in there sentences are correct



if i give you my life would you let it sleep througnt your fingers like water in a desert.

or

if i gave you my life would you let it sleep througnt your fingers like water in a desert.
  

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if i give you my life would you let it sleep througnt your fingers like water in a desert. OK If you want to use a past form of GIVE, you should change the tense of the superordinate clause: if i gave you my life would you let it have slept througnt your fingers like water in a desert.

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  • if i give you my life would you let it sleep througnt your fingers like water in a desert.
  • OK If you want to use a past form of GIVE, you should change the tense of the superordinate clause: if i gave you my life would you let it have slept througnt your fingers like water in a desert.
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if i give you my life would you let it sleep througnt your fingers like water in a desert. OK

If you want to use a past form of GIVE, you should change the tense of the superordinate clause:
if i gave you my life would you let it have slept througnt your fingers like water in a desert.
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BTW - both sentebces require a questioning mark instead of a period.
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Hi,

Traditional, standard second conditional form would be:

If I gave you my life, would you let it slip through your fingers like water in a desert?
(if the second part is a question)

or:

If I gave you my life you would let it slip through your fingers like water in a desert.
(if the second part i
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I struggled with the "sleep" word too, until I realized it was "slip." Good job on that one, Tanit!
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