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Manisha03  #477152  Fri, 15 Feb 08 06:01 AM
 Please tell the difference between below mentioned sentences. Which one can be used in which context?

Are both of them correct?

1.Had I been provided the knowledge in that domain, I would have definitely worked hard.

2.If I was provided the knowledge in that domain, I would have definitely worked hard.
  
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Mister Micawber  #477156  Fri, 15 Feb 08 06:07 AM
 No, only #1 is grammatically correct.  If you change #2, it will be correct also:

 2.If I had been provided the knowledge in that domain, I would have definitely worked hard.

 

 

 

  
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Manisha03  #477162  Fri, 15 Feb 08 06:29 AM

 

but sometimes in the If part of the sentence past tense is used in these type of conditional sentences.
  
Manisha03  #478192  Mon, 18 Feb 08 03:57 AM
 2nd sentence is at all not correct???

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Hoa Thai  #478225  Mon, 18 Feb 08 05:57 AM
Hi Manisha,

When we would like to relate a failure in the past to an ongoing activity that is still considered unfulfilled today, we can use a mixed conditional statement in which one relates a present unreal condition (i.e. verb in the simple past - TYPE II conditional ) to a past unreal / unachievable result (i.e. verb is in the form of would have + past participle - TYPE III condtional). For example, the following sentence is acceptable:

If I spoke English fluently, I could have got that job yesterday. (i.e., I speak English but not fluently enough and that is why I failed to get the job yesterday).

Here is a similar sentence that you could find in this WEBPAGE.

If you weren't such a poor dancer, you would've got a job in the chorus line in that musical. (i.e., you are still a poor dancer; and being a poor dancer, you failed to get a job...).

In looking at your sentence, "If I was provided the knowledge in that domain, I would have definitely worked hard," I don't sense that the act of providing the knowledge to you by someone is ongoing at the present time. Therefore, your statement fails to meet the rule. To fix it, you need to use the past perfect tense as shown by Mister Micawber in his recent post.

 

  
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Cool Breeze  #478265  Mon, 18 Feb 08 08:15 AM
Neither sentence is correct.

1. Had I been provided with some knowledge of that domain, I would definitely have worked hard.

2. If I had been provided with some knowledge of that domain, I would definitely have worked hard.

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tp123456  #478275  Mon, 18 Feb 08 08:51 AM
 First sentence is right.

2nd is not right because "i was provieded the knowledge" means you had been already informed, but in frist case you were not informed. 

  
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