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Originally Posted by alijawed  hey thanks Mike for talking some sense into me, otherwise I'd die an ignorant. :) Here are some more Qs.
1. Which ones are gramatically correct:
- " I could not have possibly been killed."
- " I could not possibly have been killed."
2. What's the difference between these two sentences:
- "He'd be alive, if you called." or "He'd be alive, if you had called."
- "He would have been alive, if you had called."
thanks,
Ali. |
You're welcome.
1. I would use 2. This says that it is an impossiblity that you have been killed. This is logical as you are writing.
#1 appears to say the possibility of you being killed is impossible, or something to that effect.
2. A. I would use "if you had called". That makes this a mixed conditional:
past perfect, then present conditional.
I prefer this one because there are three different times here:
1. No call was made (earlier past)>
2. He died. (later past)
3. He would be alive. (present)
This makes it clear that you cannot bring him back by calling now or by calling after he died in the past.
2. B. That is correct as a third conditional: past perfect, then past conditional.
It says the same thing as the mixed conditional except that it discusses the possibility of his being alive in the past, but after the phone call.
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