Past Subjunctive

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/4/2012 06:10 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>... Compare also "(What) if Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare",
>which might be uttered by an Oxonian, vs. "(What) if Shakespeare
>hadn't written Shakespeare", as uttered by a counterfactual historian.

What if Shakspere hadn't written Shakespeare?

Joel

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