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Using conditional sentences

if I were there I would have helped you if I were there I think yeah I'm gonna go back yeah yeah so the incorrect sentence was if I was there I would off help you now Joe and Le...

Course: Grammar without the guessworkSection: Common grammar mistakesSubtitles: en

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if I were there I would have helped you

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if I were there I think yeah I'm gonna

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go back yeah yeah

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so the incorrect sentence was if I was

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there I would off help you now Joe and

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Lea put if I were there and that's okay

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and many people do say that but this was

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in fact a third conditional something in

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the past something we can't change from

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the past

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therefore we should have put if I had

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been there I would have helped you so

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here we have the same mistake as first

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one again we have the interference of

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that tricky schwa sound so it should be

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wood or wood half

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whoo well the lovely ear drum is

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beautiful in his naughty behavior

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affected me deeply his naughty behavior

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affected me deeply all right I guess

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that's the wrong effective okay so we've

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got today they write effectively

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effective

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