Past Subjunctive

[Hunter, Lynne R CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 71700]

Ditto. Indoctrination by Crosby and Schaeffer that took too well.

Lynne Hunter

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"What if the Buddha had dated?"

"Things I wish I'd [i.e., "had"] been told."

No other constructions possible for me.

JL

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> > What does one say about "what if the Buddha would have dated", or
> > "things I wish I would have been told"?
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> FWIW:
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> "What if the Buddha had dated?"
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> "Things I wish I would have been told"
> is fine for me as it stands.
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