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Counterfactual conditional

Counterfactual conditionals (also contrafactual/subjunctive/X-marked conditionals) are conditional sentences that describe what would have been true if circumstances had been different, typically when the antecedent is taken to be false or incompatible with what actually happened. In English they are often formed with a past or irrealis morphology, as in…

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Counterfactual conditional

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Counterfactual conditional

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related to Comprehension · 9
Counterfactual conditional → Afterwards, If, If Mark, In, Later, Mark, Participants, The, They
related to Examples · 5
Counterfactual conditional → An, English, If Sally, Indicative, Simple
related to Psychological accounts · 5
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related to Terminology · 5
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related to Reasoning · 3
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related to Psychology · 2
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