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Conditional Sentence or not?
Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 10:54 am
by tequilawine
Forgone pleasure that were not desired would not have been justifiably regretted.
Can someone tell me if this sentence can be changed into conditional sentence. thanks
Re: Conditional Sentence or not?
Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 11:27 am
by BasilHallward
tequilawine wrote:Forgone pleasure that were not desired would not have been justifiably regretted.
Can someone tell me if this sentence can be changed into conditional sentence. thanks
Taking the contrapositive makes it easier to read through the malarky:
If there are forgone pleasures that are regrettable, then those pleasures must have been desired in the first place.
Further distillation:
If regret, then there was desire