jumping out the window

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keannu

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Do these two underlined mean counterfactual hypothesis or a factual one? I mean if they mean "if you had jumped out" or "even though you jumped out"?

We can also use 'could have' to speculate about something that didn't happen.
· You could have broken your neck, jumping out the window like that.
· He could have hurt somebody, throwing a bottle out of the window like that
I could have done well in my exam if I'd worked harder
 

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· You could have broken your neck, jumping out the window like that.

They jumped out of the window but didn't break their neck.
 
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