If only had I known it! / If only I had known it!“I and others” or “me and others”How did 'wieldy', the positive form of 'unwieldy', come to be a non-existent word?Missing had/have?present simple plus past simple in the if-clauseWhat 's the grammatical point in this sentence?“I had been done that” Is this correct?Inversion after “only a few years ago”Inversion should happen only once or multiple times in a single sentence?Using 'not only… but also'more than I could hope to
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If only had I known it! / If only I had known it!
“I and others” or “me and others”How did 'wieldy', the positive form of 'unwieldy', come to be a non-existent word?Missing had/have?present simple plus past simple in the if-clauseWhat 's the grammatical point in this sentence?“I had been done that” Is this correct?Inversion after “only a few years ago”Inversion should happen only once or multiple times in a single sentence?Using 'not only… but also'more than I could hope to
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If only had I known it!
If only I had known it!
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If only had I known it!
If only I had known it!
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The second one is correct; the first one isn't, because subject-auxiliary inversion (had I instead of I had) is not allowed here. It needs something specific in the context -- a fronted adverb, for instance -- in order to happen, and there's none here.
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If only had I known it!
If only I had known it!
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If only had I known it!
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The second one is correct; the first one isn't, because subject-auxiliary inversion (had I instead of I had) is not allowed here. It needs something specific in the context -- a fronted adverb, for instance -- in order to happen, and there's none here.
– John Lawler
4 hours ago
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John, thank you!
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The second one is correct; the first one isn't, because subject-auxiliary inversion (had I instead of I had) is not allowed here. It needs something specific in the context -- a fronted adverb, for instance -- in order to happen, and there's none here.
– John Lawler
4 hours ago
1
John, thank you!
– Josh
4 hours ago
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The second one is correct; the first one isn't, because subject-auxiliary inversion (had I instead of I had) is not allowed here. It needs something specific in the context -- a fronted adverb, for instance -- in order to happen, and there's none here.
– John Lawler
4 hours ago
The second one is correct; the first one isn't, because subject-auxiliary inversion (had I instead of I had) is not allowed here. It needs something specific in the context -- a fronted adverb, for instance -- in order to happen, and there's none here.
– John Lawler
4 hours ago
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John, thank you!
– Josh
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In the US I most frequently hear "If only I had known"; when I was home in Britain I also heard a variant construction: "Had I but known" which I've almost never heard here in the US.
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In the US I most frequently hear "If only I had known"; when I was home in Britain I also heard a variant construction: "Had I but known" which I've almost never heard here in the US.
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In the US I most frequently hear "If only I had known"; when I was home in Britain I also heard a variant construction: "Had I but known" which I've almost never heard here in the US.
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In the US I most frequently hear "If only I had known"; when I was home in Britain I also heard a variant construction: "Had I but known" which I've almost never heard here in the US.
answered 4 hours ago
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In the US I most frequently hear "If only I had known"; when I was home in Britain I also heard a variant construction: "Had I but known" which I've almost never heard here in the US.
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The second one is correct; the first one isn't, because subject-auxiliary inversion (had I instead of I had) is not allowed here. It needs something specific in the context -- a fronted adverb, for instance -- in order to happen, and there's none here.
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