New answers tagged conditional-constructions
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Unreal vs Real situations
Real situations don't contain "if". The corresponding situation might be something like
You are blind, so you did not avoid the other car.
You were blind, so you did not avoid the other car....
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Unreal vs Real situations
"Because you are blind, you didn't avoid the other car"
The corresponding real situation doesn't involve conditions, but causes and results. The cause is your blindness, and the result is ...
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If I knew where she <lived><lives> now, I'd go and see her
Your teacher is wrong.
The first sentence with "lived" is correct and much more natural than the second. The simple past form "lived" is correct because this sentence is in the ...
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Can it happen to be an unconventional usage of "would+Perfect Infinitive"?
Sentence B is essentially the apodosis of a "third conditional" sentence. This requires that the protasis use the past perfect form and that the apodosis use the perfect form of the modal ...
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