Edwalker
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- British English
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- England
Hello,
I wrote this conditional sentence about a cat which managed to get itself trapped on our balcony:
If the cat had been wearing an address tag, we would have known who to contact.
This sounds perfectly natural to me, but I cannot find any examples in Practical English Usage (Michael Swan) of a conditional with a progressive verb form in the "if" part.
Is my sentence really incorrect? Do I need to change it to "If the cat was wearing...."?
Thank you.
I wrote this conditional sentence about a cat which managed to get itself trapped on our balcony:
If the cat had been wearing an address tag, we would have known who to contact.
This sounds perfectly natural to me, but I cannot find any examples in Practical English Usage (Michael Swan) of a conditional with a progressive verb form in the "if" part.
Is my sentence really incorrect? Do I need to change it to "If the cat was wearing...."?
Thank you.