Timeline for How to use Past Conditional in "It would have been better if my brother had died rather than struck a bargain in the red desert"?
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| Nov 27, 2023 at 21:08 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Oct 28, 2023 at 20:35 | answer | added | Robbie Goodwin | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 9, 2023 at 16:47 | comment | added | Barmar | It may be more formally correct to say "strike", but I think many people will say "struck" because they're thinking in the past tense. | |
| Oct 9, 2023 at 9:18 | comment | added | Stuart F | If it's not answered by the above linked question, you should edit the question to express exactly which part of the sentence you're having trouble with, and what alternatives you are considering, and why. | |
| Oct 9, 2023 at 9:15 | comment | added | Stuart F | There's another question about rather than which may help with the tense - it says "rather than" must be followed by the "uninflected base form or the present participle" of the verb. | |
| Oct 9, 2023 at 2:28 | comment | added | Tinfoil Hat | What is the other version of the sentence involved in this argument? | |
| Oct 9, 2023 at 2:06 | comment | added | Peter Shor | I want to correct it to "It would have been better if my brother had died rather than strike a bargain in the red desert," but I don't know the grammatical reason for changing the tense to the present, so I could be wrong. | |
| Oct 9, 2023 at 1:26 | history | edited | Heartspring | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Oct 9, 2023 at 0:34 | history | asked | Jackie Bridges | CC BY-SA 4.0 |