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Rule "conditional clause"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: conditional clause
Message: Consider removing 'would'. (Usually, 'would' does not occur in a conditional clause, unless to make a request or give a polite order.)
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Link: https://languagetool.org/insights/post/conditional-sentences/
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • If she wouldn't have known about it, she would have been really mad.
    Correction suggestion: hadn't
ID: CONDITIONAL_CLAUSE [7]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-23 22:33:10 +0100)