Timeline for which tense should we use in these conditional sentences?
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| May 18, 2017 at 9:00 | comment | added | Teacher KSHuang | In the meantime, the difference would be the situation in which you would use one over the other. For future perfect (your first example sentence), I've described above the only situation I can imagine (at this time, though there may be more) where it would be appropriate. In the meantime, simple future is acceptable for most situations as well as for the situation I've described above. | |
| May 18, 2017 at 8:52 | comment | added | Teacher KSHuang | Honestly, as I had mentioned, I think the example is a little forced. I think they were trying to force an example for the grammar point they had been trying to make. | |
| May 16, 2017 at 13:30 | comment | added | Masih K | @TeacherKSHuang why does it use '' future perfect not future simple? Is there any difference? | |
| May 16, 2017 at 9:45 | comment | added | Teacher KSHuang | I'm having difficulty thinking of a context for the second one. Not sure why it's getting upvotes for grammaticality, but probably just a lapse on my part :O :). @Clare, could you please help provide a possible context for the second one wherein it would be grammatical? | |
| May 16, 2017 at 9:43 | comment | added | Teacher KSHuang | The first one is correct but only in a very specific situation where the speaker was speaking about this hypothetically, knowing that Rob had been taking the exam but not yet knowing its results nor how much Rob had studied. I would imagine two girlfriends, one comforting the other. I just mean that I think this example is a little bit forced. | |
| May 15, 2017 at 15:03 | answer | added | Peter | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 15, 2017 at 13:33 | comment | added | Chiller | I think the correct form is : Rob would have passed the exam if he studied enough. | |
| May 15, 2017 at 13:27 | comment | added | green_ideas | Both are grammatical. | |
| May 15, 2017 at 12:23 | history | asked | Masih K | CC BY-SA 3.0 |