keannu
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Are these really predictive not counterfactual? The runner surely know he was not in sauna, but just as a metaphor he said it? I learned "as if" is an exception in counterfactual conditional, but sometimes you can use "I felt like I hade been trapped", so I can't tell the difference. Is it really predictive, not counterfactual?
ex)I had finally done it. All my life I had dreamt of winning an Olympic gold medal. And doing so in my home country of Austrailia was thrilling. Crossing the finish line was a huge relief; it felt as though I had been trapped in an extremely hot sauna and the door had suddenly been opened...
ex)I had finally done it. All my life I had dreamt of winning an Olympic gold medal. And doing so in my home country of Austrailia was thrilling. Crossing the finish line was a huge relief; it felt as though I had been trapped in an extremely hot sauna and the door had suddenly been opened...