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Maitu - 2004-09-23
In response to Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS (Dos)

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.

Messages In This Thread
UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- GREEN HILLS SCHOOL OF ENGLISH -- 2004-09-22
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- Pro sensei Tokyo -- 2004-09-23
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- GREEN HILLS SCHOOL OF ENGLISH -- 2004-09-23
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- ESL_IN_ASIA -- 2004-09-23
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- GREEN HILLS SCHOOL OF ENGLISH -- 2004-09-23
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- ESL_IN_ASIA -- 2004-09-23
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- GREEN HILLS SCHOOL OF ENGLISH -- 2004-09-23
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- ESL_IN_ASIA -- 2004-09-23
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- GREEN HILLS SCHOOL OF ENGLISH -- 2004-09-23
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- Dos -- 2004-09-23
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- GREEN HILLS SCHOOL OF ENGLISH -- 2004-09-23
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- Lower caps please -- 2004-09-22
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- chineseteacher -- 2004-09-22
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- Maitu -- 2004-09-22
unpractical english teachers -- q -- 2004-10-23
grammmy -- Dos -- 2004-10-24
Weird connection though -- Incheon -- 2004-10-24
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- Dos -- 2004-09-23
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- Maitu -- 2004-09-23
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- The Arrogant One -- 2004-09-23
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- Maitu -- 2004-09-24
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- The Arrogant One -- 2004-09-24
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- Maitu -- 2004-09-25
RE: UNREALIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- The Arrogant One -- 2004-09-28
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- ESL_IN_ASIA -- 2004-09-25
Re: UNRELIABLE NATIVE SPEAKERS -- ESL_IN_ASIA -- 2004-09-24
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