yuri05
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Hi, I have been trying to figure this out but I can't seem to find an explanation anywhere. Are the following sentences correct?
If your grandma were alive, she would be happy to see that you have a family now.
If you studied Chinese, you would realize that it was/is not as hard as you think/thought.
What I want to draw attention to here is the tense of the verb in the that-sentences and the sentence introduced by as. I am naturally drawn to pick the versions with the present, just because I've heard and read sentences like that many times, but I was wondering, does the subjunctive attract the verb in the subordinate clause as well, like in "If you knew what I were thinking about" (referring to the present)?
If your grandma were alive, she would be happy to see that you have a family now.
If you studied Chinese, you would realize that it was/is not as hard as you think/thought.
What I want to draw attention to here is the tense of the verb in the that-sentences and the sentence introduced by as. I am naturally drawn to pick the versions with the present, just because I've heard and read sentences like that many times, but I was wondering, does the subjunctive attract the verb in the subordinate clause as well, like in "If you knew what I were thinking about" (referring to the present)?
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