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28 June
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What does When people don’t take the time to properly read something and start asking questions that could’ve been answered had they just paid attention.
P.S. What’s the grammar point behind the last sentence ‘had they just paid attention’ in the whole sentence? mean?
What does When people don’t take the time to properly read something and start asking questions that could’ve been answered had they just paid attention.
P.S. What’s the grammar point behind the last sentence ‘had they just paid attention’ in the whole sentence? mean?
P.S. What’s the grammar point behind the last sentence ‘had they just paid attention’ in the whole sentence? mean?
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"Had they just paid attention" is a conditional clause using the past perfect tense. IF they had paid better attention (different condition in the past)... THEN the RESULT would have been different (i.e. "Questions could have been answered"). In this sentence, the different possible result (could have been answered) is stated before the antecedent condition is clarified ("had they just paid attention"). Hope this helps.
- English (US)
This is a run on sentence. The previous answer is correct about the conditional clause “if they had just paid attention, they would know the answer.”
The speaker is complaining that people should read the information, instead of asking the question. This is why the speaker wrote it down, so it could be read. The speaker doesn’t have time to answer the same questions many time a day. The speaker is annoyed.
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