Timeline for Bad Grammar in The Great Gatsby?
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| May 20, 2020 at 15:55 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @ThePeake: Right; my mistake. | |
| May 20, 2020 at 15:54 | history | edited | Peter Shor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 20, 2020 at 15:49 | comment | added | ThePeake | I appreciate Peter's point about grammar here, but I think you've changed the original sentence in your example, by putting 'if' in a different place. | |
| May 17, 2020 at 12:06 | comment | added | Peter Shor | In Standard English, using would in an if clause is wrong, unless it means "willing to". It should be "We would have raised the blinds if we had seen daylight," not "We would have raised the blinds if we would have seen daylight." This non-standard usage is common in some American dialects, but I suspect you will be perceived as an uneducated hick if you use it in the U.K. (As you would have been if you had used it in the U.S. in the 1920s.) | |
| May 17, 2020 at 10:27 | comment | added | tum_ | The second 'd in the second sentence is also incorrect grammar - what would be correct grammar for this? | |
| May 16, 2020 at 19:03 | history | answered | Peter Shor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |