Itakmar
New member
- Joined
- Oct 3, 2012
- Member Type
- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- Hebrew
- Home Country
- Israel
- Current Location
- Israel
Dear Teachers,
I have recently sent an email containing this sentence portion within it :
In the case of X I would personally consider it a great miss if for some reason we weren't able to Y.
Upon several readings of this email (but regrettably after I have sent it) it occurred to me that I may have made a mistake by using "weren't" which is the past tense of "were" - because I am describing an action that will occur in the future. However, then I realized that I am using a rhetorical case - "If blah blah"... So now I am at a loss because my intuition tells me I am wrong but the literary tool I used in my sentence could bend it back into the realm of the acceptable.
Thanks in advance for any assistance you may provide.
Cordially,
Itamar
I have recently sent an email containing this sentence portion within it :
In the case of X I would personally consider it a great miss if for some reason we weren't able to Y.
Upon several readings of this email (but regrettably after I have sent it) it occurred to me that I may have made a mistake by using "weren't" which is the past tense of "were" - because I am describing an action that will occur in the future. However, then I realized that I am using a rhetorical case - "If blah blah"... So now I am at a loss because my intuition tells me I am wrong but the literary tool I used in my sentence could bend it back into the realm of the acceptable.
Thanks in advance for any assistance you may provide.
Cordially,
Itamar