Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Third conditional

There were two places in the essay where you should have used the 3rd conditional.

For example, you wrote:

If I said the truth, the person would lose his job.

Correct is this:

If I had told the truth, the person would have lost his job.

(Also note: In English, we never say the truth. We tell the truth. This is a big mistake.)

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