At that time, he might have thought it was very unlikely for him to be elected president. It's possible to use were there because, at that time, he was imagining something. and had he not said he wouldn't have time to play golf if he was elected president. I suppose you could add another clause, but this seems to make the sentence long. An alternative is to start a new sentence.Īnd he also said that he wouldn't have time to play golf if he was elected president, which is another reason for the criticism. So there is really no good way to adjust that segment so that it fits better with the rest of the sentence. When this happens, and we want to write our thoughts and words in the order they occur to us, we can use a dash. This does not occur with any great frequency, but it can now and then.Īlso, when we speak, our thoughts don't always occur to us in a way that can easily cause us to say a sentence that has a continuous, logical, and correct grammatical flow. We do this with dashes to add something to the middle of a sentence, as well, that does not follow with the grammatical flow of the sentence.
We use dashes, sometimes, to add something to a sentence that doesn't follow with the grammatical structure or flow. This horrible use of the English language is sickening. And they definitely do not always speak intelligently. It just goes to show that "educated people" don't always write intelligently.
TRUMP SAYING HE WONT HAVE TIME TO GOLF PROFESSIONAL
That's very strange for a professional journalist who writes articles for a well-known news outlet. He has a hard time with English grammar and a hard time with vocabulary usage. So the writer here just doesn't know what he's talking about. Obviously, Trump gave Obama's afternoons on the golf course attention, and he was critical of this. What was this writer even thinking about if he was thinking at all?ĭismissive tells us he thought it was not worthy of consideration or attention.
The fact of the matter is that Trump was not dismissive of them. Trump would (or might) not come under such criticism had he not been so dismissive of Obama's afternoons on the golf course.Įven the condition clause doesn't make any sense at all. Therefore, to keep this as a mixed conditional, we have to use would or might. In first place, the result clause is something imaginary or contrary to reality. The guy who wrote this article must have been seriously distracted. It has to be "might not have come under such criticism" or "would not have come under such criticism".
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