Rachel Adams
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This sentence is from the book "Reading Challenge" by Casey Malarcher. "But I knew I had to do it or a lot of people would be hurt, maybe killed."
It refers to something that has already happened why do they use "would" not "would have been hurt"?
I provided the screenshot.![IMG_20210709_140944.jpg IMG_20210709_140944.jpg](https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/data/attachments/3/3277-a215af0b4798b63b9e8181b504c76056.jpg)
It's at the end of the fifth paragraph.
It refers to something that has already happened why do they use "would" not "would have been hurt"?
I provided the screenshot.
![IMG_20210709_140944.jpg IMG_20210709_140944.jpg](https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/data/attachments/3/3277-a215af0b4798b63b9e8181b504c76056.jpg)
It's at the end of the fifth paragraph.