Thursday, November 17, 2016

grammar - If conditional "didn't" vs "hadn't"

Grammar rules say that hadn't is used for unreal past conditions, but why can't we use simple past negation instead of past perfect?




If I hadn't come to the meeting, it wouldn't have happened.



If I didn't come to the meeting, it wouldn't happen.





Does the second sentence also imply that "I did come, that's why it happened"?

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