ninafe
08-23-2006, 03:29 AM
I need help with conditionals.
Movie ‘About a boy’ (based on the book by Nick Hornby)
Veneer : the first date
Will and Christine don’t know anything about each other and are meeting for the first time.
C: - There’s something you don’t know about me.
W: - Something exciting?
C: -I have a three-year-old boy.
W: -I would have been disappointed if you didn’t have a child.
What does the last sentence mean? Does Will imagine (or try to stress) that at some time in the past he intended to date a woman with a child? But then it means that Will wasn’t disappointed in the past because Christine has a child now. Does it make sense?
I’d say: ‘I would be…’ or ‘…if you hadn’t have a child’, though the last part seems senseless for they hadn’t known each other before they met.
Appreciate any help.
Thanks a lot!
Movie ‘About a boy’ (based on the book by Nick Hornby)
Veneer : the first date
Will and Christine don’t know anything about each other and are meeting for the first time.
C: - There’s something you don’t know about me.
W: - Something exciting?
C: -I have a three-year-old boy.
W: -I would have been disappointed if you didn’t have a child.
What does the last sentence mean? Does Will imagine (or try to stress) that at some time in the past he intended to date a woman with a child? But then it means that Will wasn’t disappointed in the past because Christine has a child now. Does it make sense?
I’d say: ‘I would be…’ or ‘…if you hadn’t have a child’, though the last part seems senseless for they hadn’t known each other before they met.
Appreciate any help.
Thanks a lot!