English term
Morocco
Literature,Marketing & Legal Translation
Native in: Arabic (Variants: Moroccan, UAE, Kuwaiti, Najdi, Standard-Arabian (MSA), Hassaniya) 
, Berber (Other) (Variants: Standard Moroccan Tamazight, Tarifit , Tashelhit , Riffian, Central Atlas Tamazight, Tamazight ) 
Works in: English to Arabic, French to Arabic, Arabic to English, and 21 more.
Would be destroyed or would have been destroyed
1- Would be destroyed
2- Would have been destroyed
Should it be a mixed conditional since the effect of the event has a present indication?
Thank you
| 5 +4 | would have been destroyed |
Kiet Bach
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Bashiqa
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| 5 +3 | would have been destroyed |
Monica Colangelo
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| 5 +2 | would have been destroyed |
Teresa Goncalves
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Nov 27, 2020 09:08: Tony M changed "Field" from "Art/Literary" to "Other" , "Field (write-in)" from "(none)" to "Basic EN grammar question"
Nov 27, 2020 17:26: writeaway changed "Field (write-in)" from "Basic EN grammar question" to "Basic EN grammar question (verb tenses)"
Nov 27, 2020 17:36: Rachel Fell changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
PRO (1): Daryo
Non-PRO (3): Yvonne Gallagher, Rob Grayson, Rachel Fell
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would have been destroyed
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Tony M
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Victoria Britten
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philgoddard
: You should get the points for this.
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Tina Vonhof (X)
: It all happened in the past.
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David Hollywood
: no question about it
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Cilian O'Tuama
: I feel I must disagree with 'definitely' and CL5. A case can be made for the other option too, even if less unlikely. Not 'definitely' wrong.
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would have been destroyed
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Tony M
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Yvonne Gallagher
: you should have put CL5
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Victoria Britten
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Bridgette Mitchell
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David Hollywood
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Argentina
45 yrs' experience in most every field
Native in: Spanish (Variants: Latin American, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Standard-Spain, Uruguayan, Bolivian, Argentine, US, Rioplatense)
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, Spanish, and 1 more.
would have been destroyed
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Tony M
16 mins
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Bashiqa
: Thank you Tony.
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David Hollywood
17 hrs
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Portugal
I will drive your words to other worlds.
Native in: Portuguese
Works in: English to Portuguese, Spanish to Portuguese, English, and 2 more.
would have been destroyed
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David Hollywood
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writeaway
: is this supposed to be a new and different answer?
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philgoddard
: You're missing the point, writeaway :-)
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Discussion
If firefighters hadn't got there on time, the building would have been destroyed
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/third-conditional.ht...
I thought Kudoz was supposed to be about difficult translations not about basic English grammar?
Were it to have been "...the building would be in ruins / blackened / weakened", then that reading would work; but the primary force of 'destroyed' here is always going to be as a past participle.
1- "Would be destroyed" refers to the possible present status of the building, now it would be destroyed
2- "Would have been destroyed" refers more to the action resulting from the firefighters not getting there in time, when the fire took place: the fire would have destroyed the building.
It is possible for the two parts of a conditional sentence to refer to different times, and the resulting sentence is a "mixed conditional" sentence. There are two types of mixed conditional sentence.
https://www.ef.com/ca/english-resources/english-grammar/mixe...