I would have gone with my brother

[cannonkuo]

A British girl talks about her earliest childhood memory:

My, my earliest memory, I must have been about three, I guess, maybe with two, was, when we’d been to, to a county fair and I would have gone with my brother, who's a little older than me, and my parents...

(American English File 3E Level 5 Student Book, p.22)

Why didn't she say "when we went to" and " I would go with my brother" in the sentence since she talks about something in the past?
Is it another US-UK split?

 

[Tarheel]

I'm speculating. Her memory is probably incomplete, and she is talking about what probably happened.

 

[cannonkuo]

I'm speculating. Her memory is probably incomplete, and she is talking about what probably happened.

Thank you for your instant reply.
Are you saying both "we'd been to" and "would have gone" are referring to the girl's guessing or deduction from whatever sources?
If she is sure, she would use "when we went to" and "would go." Is my conjecture correct?

 

[5jj]

Why didn't she say "when we went to" and " I would go with my brother" in the sentence since she talks about something in the past?
Is it another US-UK split?

Presumably she is talking about a past time after these events. Unfortunately, the page you linked us to does not contain the text,

 

[cannonkuo]

Presumably she is talking about a past time after these events. Unfortunately, the page you linked us to does not contain the text,

My, my earliest memory, I must have been about three, I guess, maybe with two, was, when we’d been to, to a county fair and I would have gone with my brother, who's a little older than me, and my parents, and I'd been bought, a, a helium balloon, and for some reason the balloon had a snowman inside it, it was only September; I don't know why there was a snowman, but, but there was, and I took it out into the back yard, and because it was full of helium, obviously, it was pulling on the string, it wanted to, to fly away, and I let go, I didn't let go by accident, I remember letting go on purpose, to see what would happen, and of course what happened was the balloon flew up into the sky over the neighbors' trees and disappeared, and I was absolutely devastated, heartbroken by the loss of the balloon, and stood there crying and crying, and my dad had to go back to the county fair and get me another identical balloon, which did nothing to console me, I kept crying and crying and crying and that's my, my earliest memory, not a very happy one!

 

[5jj]

It is clear that the visit to the county fair happened before the loss of the balloon, which explains the use of the two past perfect form and the modal perfect would have gone.

 

[5jj]

Also asked here: https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/i-would-have-gone-with-my-brother.3969099/

 

[Rover_KE]

Answered on two forums.

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