shatilof
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At learnenglish.britishcouncil.org we read the following examples of Mixed Conditional:
If we'd moved to Scotland when I was a child, I would have a Scottish accent now.
If my grandmother were alive, she would have loved to see me graduate.
In the 1st sentence the author doesn't have an accent, so I would expect "I would have had a Scottish accent".
In the 2nd - again, the grandmother is dead, so it should be "If my grandmother had been alive".
Are these sentences just mistakes of Britishcouncil or is there an explanation for that? If it is correct, how is it possible?
Thank you in advance.
If we'd moved to Scotland when I was a child, I would have a Scottish accent now.
If my grandmother were alive, she would have loved to see me graduate.
In the 1st sentence the author doesn't have an accent, so I would expect "I would have had a Scottish accent".
In the 2nd - again, the grandmother is dead, so it should be "If my grandmother had been alive".
Are these sentences just mistakes of Britishcouncil or is there an explanation for that? If it is correct, how is it possible?
Thank you in advance.
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