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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Which tense?

"99% of people would have chosen this, but he had chosen that."
or
"99%of people would choose this, but he chose that."

So, which tense should I use? If none of above are correct, can you give me a correct form?
  

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Your beginning phrase is odd. Almost everyone would have chosen this, but he chose that. Almost everyone would choose this, but he chose that.

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Your beginning phrase is odd.

Almost everyone would have chosen this, but he chose that.
Almost everyone would choose this, but he chose that.

You can use either of those.