If we'd moved to Scotland when I was a child, I would have a Scottish accent now.

[shatilof]

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.

 

[Rover_KE]

They're both correct.

 

[shatilof]

They're both correct.

Could you elaborate a bit and explain why?

 

[jutfrank]

If we'd moved to Scotland when I was a child,
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".

The two forms would have had and would have have different meanings. The former relates to a past result and the latter relates to a present result.

I would have a Scottish accent = now
I would have had a Scottish accent = in the past

 

[shatilof]

The two forms would have had and would have have different meanings. The former relates to a past result and the latter relates to a present result.

I would have a Scottish accent = now
I would have had a Scottish accent = in the past

Ok, but what about real/unreal relations? I used to think that as I don't have a Scottish accent (now), it means having it is unreal, i.e. it should be expressed through would + perfect infititive. According to Rover_KE above this would also be correct, wouldn't it?

 

[jutfrank]

If we'd moved to Scotland ...

This clause can be described as 'unreal' because it expresses a past action that did not happen. It means we did not move to Scotland.

... we would have Scottish accents.

This clause imagines a present situation that has resulted from moving to Scotland. It doesn't mean that we do not have Scottish accents now. However, the sentence as a whole implies that we don't have Scottish accents.

 

[Barque]

In the 2nd - again, the grandmother is dead, so it should be "If my grandmother had been alive"

It's fine as it is. "Had been" works too but "were" works fine. Both mean that the grandmother is no longer alive.