Parsing, form, meaning, context, morphology? (John)

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Guest  #4993  Tue, 19 Aug 03 01:48 PM
"If you'd have invited me I would have come." parsing, form, meaning, context, morphology?
  
maj  #4995  Tue, 19 Aug 03 02:45 PM
It's a third conditional; it refers to a hypothetical action that did not ocurr.

"If you had invited me I would have come". It means that if I had got an invitation I would have come, but I didn't come because I didn't receive an invitation. Maybe if I had received a formal invitation a letter, a readable fax then I would have come. Since the details are not clear, there is no point in speculating further.
  
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