Grammar question on conditionals
By skaterx
@skaterx (530)
Finland
3 responses
@skaterx (530)
• Finland
18 Sep 08
Yeah I just wanted to check the grammar on it, because I've found some people write or say this before, and then today the teacher said it was wrong, but English is not his native language, so well I just wanted to check if it was grammatically wrong or not.
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@thebeaddoodler (4262)
• Lubbock, Texas
19 Sep 08
Using the same word in both clauses sounds awkward. I typed the sentence into Word Perfect and ran grammar check on it. If I had won the lottery. . .is correct.
As far as your grammar teacher's first language not being English, I wouldn't question him/her. The best grammar teacher I ever had admitted English didn't make sense, "but these are the rules, so we have to follow them". He made me understand all the little rules and exceptions that had always puzzled me. He was Spanish.
@skaterx (530)
• Finland
19 Sep 08
Yeah I guess so, that's right. Well, some thing's in English aren't very logical. But that's also why native speakers get it wrong too, because you only need a few people writing things wrong, or saying things wrong, and then you hear it and start learning it like that : ( . I guess non-native speakers have better grammar actually if they have studied it thoroughly.
@gary_law (84)
• Hong Kong
7 Oct 08
it sounds quite awkward...
The stucture of "would have + pp" is what you have expected under certain condition, but the expectation was not achieved as the condition has not been met.
I would have won the lottery was the condition but not what we have expected,
so it seems to me that it is rather illogical.
Just my 2cents.
