Yesterday I asked you to look at the sentence below.
- There would be no computer programmers if the computer hadn't been invented.
This sentence contains a mixed conditional: would + infinitive (2nd conditional) with if + past perfect (3rd conditional).
Notice that I'm imagining the present result of an imagined event in the past.
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