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Which sentence from the following is correct?

Suppose you were very busy last night. Would you have watched this film?

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Suppose you had been very busy last night. Would you have watched this film?

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Tense-shifting to mark hypotheticals is disappearing from the language, so either form of the question would be acceptable; had been more clearly marks the hypothetical as a past hypothetical, corroborating "last night".

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