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1) If I had joined AMC I wouldn't have been provided with the company transport (I would have had to commute on my own to work) for all the years I had worked for AMC.

1) If I joined AMC I wouldn't be provided with the company transport (I would have to commute on my own to work) for all the years I worked for AMC.

Please check my sentences.
 

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Find a way to avoid writing AMC twice in the same sentence.
 

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Find a way to avoid writing AMC twice in the same sentence.


1) If I had joined AMC I wouldn't have been provided with the company transport (I would have had to commute on my own to work) for all the years I had worked there.

1) If I joined AMC I wouldn't be provided with the company transport (I would have to commute on my own to work) for all the years I worked there.
 

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1) If I had joined AMC I wouldn't have been provided with the company transport (I would have had to commute on my own to work) for all the years I had worked there.

1) If I joined AMC I wouldn't be provided with the company transport (I would have to commute on my own to work) for all the years I worked there.

You've used the tenses correctly and successfully fixed the redundancy in both sentences, but they both have a definite article that doesn't belong. Can you revise them to fix that and to remove the parenthetical statement?
 

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You've used the tenses correctly and successfully fixed the redundancy in both sentences, but they both have a definite article that doesn't belong. Can you revise them to fix that and to remove the parenthetical statement?


1) If I had joined AMC I wouldn't have been provided with the company transport for all years I had worked there.

1) If I joined AMC I wouldn't be provided with the company transport for all years I worked there.
 

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1) If I had joined AMC I wouldn't have been provided with the company transport for all years I had worked there.

1) If I joined AMC I wouldn't be provided with the company transport for all years I worked there.

No. Try again. :)
 

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Also, don't forget that such conditional sentences need a comma to separate the dependent and independent clauses.
 

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Who do you work for? Who is providing the transportation? I am not clear about your meaning.
 

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No. Try again. :)


1) If I had joined AMC, I wouldn't have been provided with company transport for all the years I had worked there.

1) If I joined AMC, I wouldn't be provided with company transport for all the years I worked there.
 

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Who do you work for? Who is providing the transportation? I am not clear about your meaning.


I work for AMC and this company is providing the transport (pick up and drop service) for its employees so that they don't have to commute.
 

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I work for AMC and [STRIKE]this [/STRIKE] the company[STRIKE] is providing[/STRIKE] provides [STRIKE]the[/STRIKE] transport (pick-up and drop-off service) for its employees so that they don't have to commute (they do commute by do not have to pay for it).

In the conditional sentences, you said the company would not provide transport. So which is true?
 

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1) If I had joined AMC, I wouldn't have been provided with company transport for all the years I had worked there.

1) If I joined AMC, I wouldn't be provided with company transport for all the years I worked there.

These are possible.
 

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Logically, it needs to say "if I hadn't joined AMC..."
 

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In the conditional sentences, you said the company would not provide transport. So which is true?


I don't understand your last sentence one with "commute by".

That company provides transport facility but it wasn't providing it to me.
 

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I don't understand your last sentence one with "commute by". Who are you directing this to? I can't find a response that ends with "commute by".

That company provides transport facility but it wasn't providing it to me.

Are you saying that the company provides transport to work for some employees but you are not able/allowed to use it?
 

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1) If I had joined AMC I wouldn't have been provided with [STRIKE]the[/STRIKE] company transport for all years I [STRIKE]had[/STRIKE] worked there.

This illustrates why we need to look at one sentence at a time. Anyhow, my interpretation of the sentence is that you wouldn't have been provided with company transport whether you worked there or not. I don't think that's what you want to say, but I could be wrong.
 

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It is like saying: My company provides transport for its employees but I am not entitled to it.
What is the point of making the statement?
 
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This illustrates why we need to look at one sentence at a time. Anyhow, my interpretation of the sentence is that you wouldn't have been provided with company transport whether you worked there or not. I don't think that's what you want to say, but I could be wrong.

Yes, you are partially correct. I meant "I wouldn't have been provided with company transport, if I had joined that company so I didn't join that company".
 

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Are you saying that the company provides transport to work for some employees but you are not able/allowed to use it?


Look at post# 11. Yes, you are correct but company does provide transport facility for all of its employees.
 

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Yes, you are partially correct. I meant "I wouldn't have been provided with company transport if I had joined that company, so I didn't join that company".

Aha! Now we have it! (I moved the comma.)
 
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