Hi teachers,
When I was reading newspaper, I came across a sentence written like this :
If we don't take these opportunities now, the windows would have closed, others would have seized it, we would have missed the oppotunity.
My question : Why the if-clause is the present real conditional but the main clause is the past unreal conditional? Is that possible?
Shouldn't the sentence be written as follows :
If we don't take these oppotunities now, the windows will be closed, others will seize it, we will miss(or will be missing) the opportunity.
Please enlighten me.
Thank you very much in advance.
Regards,
CW Tan