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Bokeh  #378757  Tue, 12 Jun 07 11:55 PM
 Goodman wrote:
Doesn't BrE have the same grammar book?
Is there only one?

I've only got three books on English grammar with me at the moment (my main library is back in England) but none of them mention those terms.
  
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MrPedantic  #378815  Wed, 13 Jun 07 01:45 AM

I would vote with the "Fine" lobby.

1. If she had done X (in an imaginary past), she would have been Y (in an imaginary more recent past).

2. If she had done X (in an imaginary past), she would be Y (in an imaginary present).

#1 is a standard type III conditional.

#2 takes the if-clause from a type III conditional, and the main clause from a type II conditional. (That's why it's called "mixed"; which doesn't mean "incorrect".)

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