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Example 1
A girl who is going to help you with your study and all of your trouble does not exist.
Example 2
A girl who told him that he was good-looking does not exist.
The reasons (because-clauses) are my guesses, so they can be imaginary.
So this got me to think: Does this kind of structure have anything to do with a second or third conditional structure or are they just normal past tense and future tense?
Are parts in bold correct?
Example 2 could work if you change "A girl" to "The girl". That way, you can express the fact that he was delusional, since he told you about a compliment from a non-existent person.
If you want Example 2 to sound like Example 1 (i.e. no girl would ever compliment him), you would need to say, "A girl who would tell him that he was good-looking didn't exist."
