Omar Ahmed Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

A puzzling question

" If I was to be a king, I decided I wanted to act like a king. "

I read the sentence mentioned above in a story . Is it type 2 conditional? Is it grammatically correct?

  

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Omar Ahmed Is it type 2 conditional? No, because it does not contain 'would' anywhere. It's a sentence in the past tense that happens to have an if -clause.

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Omar AhmedIs it type 2 conditional?

No, because it does not contain 'would' anywhere.

It's a sentence in the past tense that happens to have an if-clause.

The if-clause doesn't really even state a condition. You can paraphrase it thus:

Considering the fact that I was going to be a king, I decided I wanted to act like a ki