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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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Why we use ' would have done' on the following example?
"That's a real old-fashioned way to deal with crime, isn't it ? it 's like what my parents would have done ! "
Why speaker used "would have done" in a way that 'would +pp ' means :a hypothetical situation in the past, which he/she knows did not happen.
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Why speaker used "would have done" in a way that 'would +pp ' means :a hypothetical situation in the past, which he/she knows did not happen.
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Anonymous Why speaker used "would have done" in a way that 'would +pp ' means :a hypothetical situation in the past, which he/she knows did not happen. His parents would have done that if the crime had happened to them , even though it did not happen to them.
- Anonymous Why speaker used "would have done" in a way that 'would +pp ' means :a hypothetical situation in the past, which he/she knows did not happen.
- His parents would have done that if the crime had happened to them , even though it did not happen to them.
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AnonymousWhy speaker used "would have done" in a way that 'would +pp ' means :a hypothetical situation in the past, which he/she knows did not happen.His parents would have done that if the crime had happened to them, even though it did not happen to them.
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