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18 January
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1. If I moves back to Japan I will meet my parents every day.
2. If I moved back to Japan I would have met my parents every day.
I would like to comfirm what difference between the two sentences.
" 1" is passable to happen, but "2" is talking about passed. And I didn't move back to Japan and I didn't meet my parents.
Is that correct ?
1. If I moves back to Japan I will meet my parents every day.
2. If I moved back to Japan I would have met my parents every day.
I would like to comfirm what difference between the two sentences.
" 1" is passable to happen, but "2" is talking about passed. And I didn't move back to Japan and I didn't meet my parents.
Is that correct ?
2. If I moved back to Japan I would have met my parents every day.
I would like to comfirm what difference between the two sentences.
" 1" is passable to happen, but "2" is talking about passed. And I didn't move back to Japan and I didn't meet my parents.
Is that correct ?
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Technically speaking, 2 should be:
"If I had moved back to Japan, I would have seen my parents every day."
And 1 should be:
"If I move back to Japan, I will see* my parents every day."
Then, yes, 1 is something that could still happen in the future, but 2 talks about a past that can no longer be changed.
*I don't think "meet" is the right verb here, because meet often means "get introduced to each other for the for time," or "agree to go to a specific location to see each other."
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@Wailua Thank you for teaching me what is different between meet and see. Thank you.
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@Wailua
"If I moved back to Japan, I would /could meet up with my parents every day."
What do you think about this one?
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- Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
@Amech Using "meet up with" would *generally* imply that your parents have to leave their house and meet you somewhere else.
Generally, I "meet up with" friends and "go see" my parents.
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