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can i say , "I wouldn't have found a place to stay unless he had taken me in"?
can i say , "I wouldn't have found a place to stay unless he had taken me in"?
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"I wouldn't have had a place to stay if he hadn't taken me in."
"Unless" doesn't work in the conditional tense. It is almost always "if".
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