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If only I'd gotten here sooner.
-----"I'd gotten" means "I would gotten" here? why is 'gotten' used here?
7 нояб. 2023 г., 15:43
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It is 'if only I HAD gotten here sooner'. This is the third conditional. It expresses the wish to change something that happened in the past. In reality, you did not get here sooner.
7 ноября 2023 г.
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"Gotten" here means "arrived". The verb "get" has thousands of meanings, which makes it a confusing verb with unlimited uses. I think it would be possible to speak English knowing only three verbs: "have", "be", and "get", but I don't recommend doing that.
So the sentence fragment really means "If only I had arrived here sooner ...". To complete the fragment and turn it into a real sentence, state what you would have done:
"If only I had arrived here sooner I would have been able to spend more time with you."
7 ноября 2023 г.
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For your information, there ARE rather similar examples where ‘I’d’ means ‘I would’. For example:
I’d have gotten her sooner if I hadn’t run out of gas on the way. (I would have …)
7 ноября 2023 г.
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It's in the Past Perfect tense. "I'd" is short for "I had" in this example. In American English, "gotten" is the past participle of "get."
7 ноября 2023 г.
To express something u wish u did it but bcz of a barriers you couldn't done it
8 ноября 2023 г.
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