Correct, Bob.
But I’m afraid that the inhabitants of North America lost the knack with the
pluperfect tense some time ago. A common mistake is, “If I knew you were going
to say that I would have . . .”
Which should have the pluperfect in the first clause, “If I had known . . .”.
Very sad face (at the loss of the sense of time in tenses). The structure of
our language is crumbling.
Chris
> On 16 Dec 14, at 01:46, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Pedant alert!
>
> If I had had to go?
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> Certified Neanderthal
>
> On Dec 14, 2014, at 11:22 PM, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>> I appreciate those who served, but I don't want to think about how it would
>> have been if I had to go.
>
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