"WOULD HAVE ARRIVED" for an impossible future event
CONTEXT:
The speaker and his/her companion didn't get a flat tire while crossing a dangerous section of the road, they are now further down the road and there's no reason to expect that they will not arrive in London around 6:30. The speaker says the sentences below at 6:00.
SENTENCES:
1. If we had gotten a flat tire, we [WOULDN'T ARRIVE] in London around 6:30. Rather, we [WOULD HAVE ARRIVED] around 8:00.
2. If we had gotten a flat tire, we [WOULD HAVE ARRIVED] in London around 8:00. As it is, we will arrive around 6:30.
QUESTION:
Do the tenses in captial letters work in my sentences?
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Answers · 5
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Sentence #2 is correct. Sentence #1 should say eseentially the same thing, only in a different order. Therefore, sentence #1 should use the same tense as sentence #2. " If we had gotten a flat tire, we [WOULDN'T have ARRIVEd] in London around 6:30. Rather, we [WOULD HAVE ARRIVED] around 8:00.
The other way to correct sentence #1 is like this: If we got a flat tire, we [WOULDN'T ARRIVE] in London around 6:30. Rather, we [WOULD arrive] around 8:00.
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