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If I had studied, I would have passed the exam.
Conditional sentences type 3:
If I had studied, I would have passed the exam. (long form)
If I'd studied, I'd have passed the exam. (short form)
I had -> I'd
I would -> I'd
Why is the short version of would and had exactly the same?
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10 giu 2020 13:17
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H and W are relatively weak sounds which are often dropped in auxiliary and modal verbs.
Your examples are correct. Here are more examples.
We will > We'll
We have > We've
We had > We'd
We would > We'd
We would have > We'd have > We'd've
We would have > We would've > We'd've
10 giugno 2020
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Inglese, Tedesco
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Inglese
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