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This bears a direct correspondence to the classic confusion between subjuntive and conditional, for hypothetical situations:
Si pidieras ayuda, tus cosas marcharían mejor. (If you
asked for help, things would go better) (Present Unreal Conditional)
This is the correct form for the present case (subjuntive/conditional). It would be clearly wrong to ...
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A good general pattern that you'd probably want to use, might be:
Sería bueno si pudieras Y. => It would be great, if you could Y.
...where Y is the requested action. (Note: In some cases, the Sería bueno could come
after the si clause, but both are equivalent.)
Examples:
Sería bueno si pudieras ir a la tienda despues del trabajo. => If you ...
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They are different. Podría ser is could be, whereas sería is would be:
Si fuera rico, podría comer ostras a diario = If I were rich, I could eat oysters every day.
Si fuera rico, comería ostras a diario = If I were rich, I would eat oysters every day.
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Si (yo/él/usted) hubiera sido rico, hubiera/habría comprado un carro.
This means that if you would have been rich at that time you would have bought the car. This can imply that the situation might have changed. For example you may no longer interested in buying the car. But if at that time the condition would have been true you would have done it. The ...
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El problema es el subjuntivo. Por lo general, la respuesta correcta es tal y como señala Alenanno: "habría". Y lo correcto (por lo general) es "habría" pues debemos tener en cuenta que una frase con todos los verbos en modo subjuntivo es una frase incompleta (a menos que se pueda completar tácitamente por el contexto) que deja al interlocutor esperando que ...
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I'd say:
Si lo hubieran anotado, después no les habría costado tanto recordarlo.
But, although it seems weird to me, according to my Spanish grammar book, in the second one you can use: condicional simple, pretérito imperfecto, condicional compuesto (indicativo) and pluscuamperfecto.
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Neither of them is correct. For this construction you need the subjunctive in its present form:
Cuando estas facturas estén pagadas, llámame.
Cuando estas facturas se paguen, llámame.
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