Grammar question - conditional tenses
Could you help me please and check just three sentences?
They are supposed to be an answer to the question "What would life be like without art?"
I've tried to use unreal conditional...
"I strongly believe that predisposition to art is the inherent feature of human beings. So if there had been no art in our life we just would have been anyone else than we really are. And this means that we wouldn't be able to discuss this question"
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Answers · 9
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"I strongly believe that a predisposition to art is an inherent feature of human beings. So if there were no art in our lives, we would each be someone different to who we really are. And this means that we wouldn't be able to discuss this question."
Check all my changes. The main one is the shift from 3rd to 2nd conditional. It is an unreal present situation (our lives are still going on), not a past one (our lives are finished).
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Maybe this is getting too picky , or advanced, since the others already made excellent corrections. My only further comment is that its not considered excellent English to start a sentence with the word " And " , or any preposition. We often speak like this, and that is ok, but in writing its not considered formal or proper. You can simply start the sentence off without it. ---- This means that ...... etc... Drop the " And" .
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I think this is very good! I would change the following part though : "So if there had been no art in our life we just would have been anyone else than we really are"
Can you think of a better way of saying it?
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