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25 Sep 2018, 07:52
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Question: At least some volunteers who said they had acted fairly in choosing the easy task would have said that it was unfair for someone else to do so.
It is actually a CR question choice in the OG No.650. I think the tenses here "said", "had acted", "would have said" are awkward.
It makes sense that we say "who said that they had acted ...", it means the action "act" happened before the action "say" in the past.
But if we add the "would have said", it is totally different. Because, as we all know, "would have" means that something you actually didn't do in the past.
So the meaning of the original sentence is volunteers didn't say that it was unfair for someone else to do so. In fact, as the argument implied, they did so.
It is actually a CR question choice in the OG No.650. I think the tenses here "said", "had acted", "would have said" are awkward.
It makes sense that we say "who said that they had acted ...", it means the action "act" happened before the action "say" in the past.
But if we add the "would have said", it is totally different. Because, as we all know, "would have" means that something you actually didn't do in the past.
So the meaning of the original sentence is volunteers didn't say that it was unfair for someone else to do so. In fact, as the argument implied, they did so.
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25 Sep 2018, 20:41
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IMO, "would have" constructions are hypothectical in nature. Here the prompt says that at least some of the volunteers said that they acted fairly (acting fairly is prior to saying). Now the hypothetical part -If someone had asked them then, they would have responded by saying that it was unfair for someone else to do so. So, yea it doesn't happen really. The prompt says that had this question been raised, this would have been the response. The sentence is grammatically correct.
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26 Sep 2018, 01:46
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Thanks for your reply.
I can totally understand your explanation of the sentence. And it makes sense.
But is it grammatically correct that we omitt the "if" part in a hypothetical sentence?
I am sure that some sentences, such as "I would have told you the story, but you didn't ask me", are right without "if" part. Because "you didn't ask me" substitute the "if" part.
