Many of us bemoan our lack of foresight by complaining that if we would have bought property twenty years ago, we could have taken advantage of the recent real estate boom.
A. by complaining that if we would have bought property twenty years ago, we could have taken advantage of the recent real estate boom
B. , looking backward to a potential property purchase twenty years ago and wishing we had done so for present purposes
C. : with real estate available so cheaply twenty years ago, the advantages of the recent boom would be ours for the asking
D. , complaining that if we had bought property twenty years ago, we could have taken advantage of the recent real estate boom
E. , the complaint being our lack of purchasing property twenty years ago and the consequent absence of profit in the recent real estate boom
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Here answer should be (D).
ReplyDelete"I would have" is conditional perfect. The conditional perfect can only go in the "then" clause - it is grammatically incorrect to use the conditional perfect in the "if" clause:
The correct way in such cases is to use the past perfect in the "if" clause, and the conditional perfect in the "then" clause.
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