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Old 03-Nov-2005, 14:06
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Default Re: Doubt in the use of Past Perfect or Simple past in an If-clause

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Originally Posted by omidonline
Grammatically speaking, you cannot use "Simple Past" tense in conditional sentences to refer to "Past Time."
There are some exceptions to that, IMO:
  • If I were you, I wouldn't have done that.
  • If I had been you, I wouldn't have done that.
Of the two, the first sounds more logical a sentence to me, though it could easily be rewritten to avoid the problem.
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