soozieqtips
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I just spotted something interesting.
OP said:
"If I was in a hurry I would have just run where I did"...
... which means the same thing as:
"If I'd been in a hurry, I would have just run where I did"
His sentence is grammatically incorrect, but it doesn't matter, because he's still basically using the third conditional. What tense you use when describing an event is quite telling, especially at a murder trial.
Third conditional sentences describe the past. They describe something that didn’t happen.
Example - If I’d studied harder at school, I would have gone to university.
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/conditionals-2
OP said:
"If I was in a hurry I would have just run where I did"...
... which means the same thing as:
"If I'd been in a hurry, I would have just run where I did"
His sentence is grammatically incorrect, but it doesn't matter, because he's still basically using the third conditional. What tense you use when describing an event is quite telling, especially at a murder trial.
Third conditional sentences describe the past. They describe something that didn’t happen.
Example - If I’d studied harder at school, I would have gone to university.
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/conditionals-2