Timeline for It had been decided to talk again if they did not appear
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| S Mar 1, 2023 at 21:05 | history | suggested | Snostorp | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Sep 25, 2022 at 7:18 | history | suggested | Samuel Muldoon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
I turned the following sentence into a block-quote: "it had been decided to talk again if they did not appear"
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| Sep 24, 2022 at 2:16 | answer | added | Samuel Muldoon | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 24, 2022 at 1:34 | comment | added | Samuel Muldoon | You wrote, "If I change it the other way, it does not make sense". What is, "the other way"? | |
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| Jun 28, 2020 at 14:04 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | All variations of the verb tenses in the question are fine. Some may be less common than others, but they are all grammatical. Mixing verb tenses is very common, and any blanket prohibition against doing so is misguided. Not mixing them is a good rule of thumb when learning English, because they can be mixed in ways that are either awkward or nonsensical, but that doesn't mean they can't be mixed in a way that's normal. | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 9:44 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | It had been decided = a decision had been made. ...to talk = that they would talk. It's perfectly normal to use decide to do instead of decide that you will do. | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 9:00 | comment | added | artek | @KateBunting thank you so much. Can you tell what is the rule behind it? I mean using passive tense with infinitive (had been decided to talk) instead of simply "would talk"? Never encountered such a thing. Thanks in advance | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 8:24 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | The people at the meeting(or whatever it was) decided "We will wait a few more days, and if the men don't appear we will talk about it again." As the meeting was in the past, the decision is reported as [they would] talk again if [the men] did not appear. | |
| Jun 28, 2020 at 6:24 | history | asked | artek | CC BY-SA 4.0 |