BestBuddy
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A: The three of us were working the crops when that ship showed up. We just saw it and ran. I don't know what happened to the rest of the crew.
B: They were by the garage. Over near the spaceport. Right where that ship came down. No way they survived.
C: You don't know that! If they made / had made it to the garage, they may have had a fighting chance!
Which one should we use?
If we use "had made" it fits to the third conditional, but the third conditional is about unreal past (where we know for sure whether it did or did not happen).
If we use "made" it makes sense to me since it's a real situation in the past (where we don't know whether it happened or not), but it doesn't fit to any of 0, 1, 2, 3 and mixed conditionals.
B: They were by the garage. Over near the spaceport. Right where that ship came down. No way they survived.
C: You don't know that! If they made / had made it to the garage, they may have had a fighting chance!
Which one should we use?
If we use "had made" it fits to the third conditional, but the third conditional is about unreal past (where we know for sure whether it did or did not happen).
If we use "made" it makes sense to me since it's a real situation in the past (where we don't know whether it happened or not), but it doesn't fit to any of 0, 1, 2, 3 and mixed conditionals.
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