By Stative verbs, Conditionals

can substitute for the past of an action verb in this structure. Using the examples above, this substitution works for the first and third, but not the second and fourth, because have and know are stative verbs. Thus,If you were to bake a cake, I would eat it.If he were to take the other road,...

CalifJim wrote:And by the way, has anyone tried the angle that stative verbs might act differently from other verbs in if-clauses with regard to the speaker's tendency to keep them in the past instead of putting them in the past perfect (in what seems to be a "third conditional")? That...

And by the way, has anyone tried the angle that stative verbs might act differently from other verbs in if-clauses with regard to the speaker's tendency to keep them in the past instead of putting them in the past perfect (in what seems to be a "third conditional")? That might be a trend. ...