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Sasha
Enseignant professionnelwe might never have met or we might have never met
If I hadn't missed that train, we might never have met.
or
If I hadn't missed that train we might have never met.
Which one is wrong to say, why?
28 mars 2020 18:18
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Both are correct.
"... we might never have met" is recommended. As Jeremy mentioned, adverbs of frequency go after the first verb when there are multiple verbs. See English Grammar in Use 4ed unit 110C.
28 mars 2020
I agree with Jeremy.
28 mars 2020
First the dry, complicated answer. The placement of adverbs of frequency, in this case "never"(and many other types of adverbs) is immediately after the first verb in a multi-verb verb phrase, in other words, immediately after the auxiliary verb. might never have met.
Now the more colloquial answer. They both convey the exact same meaning and both are quite nice sounding sentences. The first version sounds, to me, a little bit more educated while the second example is more likely what you would hear in real life. It would most likely be said as "If I hadn't missed that train we might've never met."
28 mars 2020
we might have
28 mars 2020
I would say the second one as it sounds a bit more natural to me. I don’t know if the first one is wrong per say but I wouldn’t say it that way.
28 mars 2020
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Sasha
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