Conditional sentences. Again I wonder, what type of conditional sentence I use? Let's look at the next example: "If you bought yesterday fish we will eat fish tomorrow". The sentence is contains some

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Conditional sentences. Again I wonder, what type of conditional sentence I use? Let's look at the next example: "If you bought yesterday fish we will eat fish tomorrow". The sentence is contains some probable past ("you bought fish") and some probable future ("we will eat fish tomorrow"). It means that the past for the speaker is uncertain. He knows that if one fact of the past is true then some event in the future is true too, otherwise the event of the future is false as well. And if you know, please, give me a link to some page where I could read about grammar rules of these kinds of sentences in English language. Thanks.

2015年8月3日 16:29

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Look for "Mixed Conditionals"

2015年8月3日

Your sentence describes a very unusual situation. It is possible that you bought fish yesterday. If so, we will eat it tomorrow. But if you bought fish two days ago or even just this morning, we will not eat it. There is obviously something very important about the date of purchase. It would be more common to say : "If you have bought fish, we will have it tomorrow." Here, it doesn't matter when you bought the fish, only that you have done so. I think that this is a mixed conditional though I am struggling to define it better.

2015年8月3日

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