Hi teachers,
While I was reading a 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.