DoS,
I wrote the following 2 sentences:
> You WOULD HAVE DONE the same HAD YOU BEEN in his shoes
> You WOULD DO the same WERE YOU TO BE in his shoes.
Then you wrote:
> Is that right? It looks wrong to me. How about...
> You would do the same WERE YOU in his shoes.
In answer to you, yes my original two sentences are grammatically sound.
They refer to hypothetical situations in the past (would have/ had been) and in the future (would/ were to be) respectively. I don't like yours though. I think you mean:
>You WOULD do the same IF YOU WERE in his shoes.
(which is a conditional, rather than a hyptothetical)
OR, as I already wrote:
>You WOULD do the same WERE YOU TO BE in his shoes.
(which is a hypothetical, rather than a conditional).
That's the way I do things anyway,
Cheers.
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