By Simple past, Mixed conditionals

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 /...

In the past, if you wanted to eat Japanese food, you would have had to go to Japan but now, you can find Japanese restaurants all around the world, from New York to Istanbul or Sydney. Is such a structure possible in the English L language?Yes. This structure is called a mixed...

I would say that these became mixed conditionals through the substitution of were for had been, which is a common substitution, especially in everyday conversation. I would say that the 'original' thoughts and meanings were: If you had been paying attention, it wouldn't have happened. If...

Hi,I don't think those are really mixed conditionals, but you know, it depends what you mean by "mixed".If you were paying attention to your assignment, it wouldn't have happened. <--- You are not paying attention, that's why it happened (just now, probably). If she were working for Moretti,...

Thank you both for the reply. I know "past perfect + conditional progressive" forms such as the following are grammatically correct. If I had had time, I would be talking to her now. But are "past perfect + simple conditional" forms allowed too? If I had had time, I would talk...

...For instance, it says you could use sentences like "If I wasn't afraid of spiders, I would have picked it up" that have a If + simple past, Perfect conditional form... Yes, it sounds fine to me too. You might have expected a straightforward 'type 3' protasis (if I hadn't been afraid...); but...

Hello. I was reading jack112 threads because he had many questions on conditionals. I wanted to know more about mixed conditionals in particular, so I did a search on google. I came across a couple of sites, and I was wondering if you could verify the authenticity of their contents....

I got the impression that people were arguing that a simple past/future mix could not occur, for example. That kind of thing is outside the usual 0/1/2/3 stuff, and seen as a mixed conditional, isn't it? The mixture of real/unreal is another matter, though of course we had a thread recently where...

I read your comments and there is one thing I still can't understand: 1. If anyone ever felt X, she will feel X for you => If it is the case that Feeling X exists, she will experience Feeling X. So I wouldn't call it a mixed conditional. If “If anyone ever FELT / HAD such an interest for a...

It is a past counterfactual, so it's "as if it had happened yesterday". Nevertheless, it is quite common for native speakers to substitute the simple past for the past perfect, so you will very frequently hear "as if it happened yesterday", which means exactly the same thing. CJ