If I had known you ARE/WERE coming along, I wouldn't have gotten here really

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Let's your most hated person in the class suddenly popped up joining your group for a planned eating out. Now you are annoyed, and you said:

If I had known you ARE coming along, I wouldn't have gotten here really

Or

If I had known you WERE coming along, I wouldn't have gotten here really

This a 3rd conditional construction, after you applied (If I had) + participle, what is next? ARE or WERE

It's were. I wouldn't have gotten here really is slang and clumsy. You can either repeat come or say something like I would have stayed away data.grammarbook.com/blog/verbs/if-i-would-have-vs-if-i-had. — Ronald Sole, Commented Dec 2, 2018 at 9:58

Iman Nia · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-02 13:40:40Z

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Third conditional does not apply to this situation since you are not going to explain two actions in the past which their sequence matters.

The correct form would be :

If I knew you are/were comming...

answered Dec 2, 2018 at 13:40

Iman Nia

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