In the Friends TV show Phoebe complains about her bank and five hundred extra dollars in her account. She explains that she can’t spend that money in the following words:
Let’s say I bought a really great pair of shoes, do you know what I’d hear with every step I took.
Why does she use past simple saying I took? I thought it had to be like with every step I’d
tooktake in the second conditional.Could someone please explain what I’m missing and point me out to a rule or something about this?
Answer
First of all, I’d took is ungrammatical – the past perfect is I had (I’d) taken. But the past perfect is not required in conditional phrases like this.
If I could take a seaside holiday, as soon as I arrived I would go and look at the sea. (not as soon as I had arrived).
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Source : Link , Question Author : E. Shcherbo , Answer Author : Kate Bunting
