Timeline for Does the third conditional with past continuous exists? Examples are given below
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| Nov 8, 2019 at 8:44 | vote | accept | Keb | ||
| Nov 8, 2019 at 0:33 | answer | added | Colin Fine | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 8, 2019 at 0:22 | comment | added | Tuffy | Could you please give more context to the statements? The first sentence would pose no problem in the first person, there would be no problem, since ‘I should have’ does not necessarily mean ‘I ought to have’. It can mean ‘I would have’ and there is nothing wrong with that. Otherwise, the sentence IS weird. You cannot have a duty to have done something you would have have had a duty to do if you had gone to the match (but didn’t)!. It puts us in a hall of temporal mirrors. The only way out is: “If you had gone ... you would have had a duty to invite me.” | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 16:31 | comment | added | Nigel J | Or : If you were going to go ... you could have invited me ... This puts the ability to invite immediately at the point of the decision to go. | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 16:15 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 7, 2019 at 16:10 | history | asked | Keb | CC BY-SA 4.0 |