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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
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Would have been upset

"I'm pleased the Prime Minister has asked for an investigation and I can see also why so many people would have been upset by that video," he told British broadcaster Sky News.

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Does the VP would have been upset have something to do with the effect caused by a not specified condition in the sentence above?

  

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anonymous Does the VP would have been upset have something to do with the effect caused by a not specified an unspecified condition in the sentence above? Yes. The implicit condition is the vacuous "if they had seen the video".

  • anonymous Does the VP would have been upset have something to do with the effect caused by a not specified an unspecified condition in the sentence above?
  • Yes.
  • The implicit condition is the vacuous "if they had seen the video".
  • CJ
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anonymousDoes the VP would have been upset have something to do with the effect caused by a not specified an unspecified condition in the sentence above?

Yes. The implicit condition is the vacuous "if they had seen the video".

CJ

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