Timeline for If this 'would' were 'would have p.p', is it not an irrealis but past form of would?
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| Dec 27, 2015 at 14:26 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @KinzleB Yes, I miss her questions; I think I learned more from them than she did from my answers! | |
| Dec 27, 2015 at 13:34 | comment | added | Kinzle B | It's a shame that Listenever seems to have given up asking questions in ELL. And we even don't know what happened to her. That's perhaps the biggest shortcoming of online pedagogy. @StoneyB | |
| Dec 27, 2015 at 13:07 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @KinzleB Yes, English have is a word of very wide application, whose sense is strongly conditioned by context. In this case, the immediately preceding sentence tells us that Mrs Ramsay is visualizing "the little group" as she saw it earlier on the terrace: Andrew was among them, and at that time he had his net and basket. | |
| Dec 27, 2015 at 12:45 | comment | added | Kinzle B | Interesting! We don't use have that way. In Chinese, you could say "he has money" to mean "he has money on him", but not "he has his net" to mean "he is carrying his net". It just means "he possesses a net", nothing more. Have is a much less versatile word in Chinese. @StoneyB | |
| Dec 27, 2015 at 12:20 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @KinzleB No, it's literally had: he was carrying those things. | |
| Dec 27, 2015 at 10:54 | comment | added | Kinzle B | What's meant by "had his net" here? "Got his net"? @StoneyB | |
| Jul 22, 2013 at 11:48 | vote | accept | Listenever | ||
| Jul 22, 2013 at 11:30 | history | answered | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |