I'd've
From Fresh Dictionary
Contents |
[edit]
English
[edit]
Contraction
- I would have; I woulda.
- If I'd've known you were coming, I'd've baked a cake.
[edit]
Quotations
- 1876, Charles Heber Clark, Elbow-room: A Novel Without a Plot, page 370.
- If they had loved knowledge, they wouldn't've cared if I'd've ripped off their old steeple and dropped it down like an extinguisher on top of some factory chimney.
- 1898, Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War, page 163.
- I suppose he desarved it; but, if I'd been on th' jury, I'd've starved to death befure I'd give th' verdict.
- 1997, Susan Isaacs, Lily White, page 64.
- All the names he uses, I get mixed up, even though the last time he tested me I only got one wrong. If I'd've used Dan, they wouldn't have traced the car back to the apartment.
[edit]
References
- 2005, Mental Spaces In Grammar: Conditional Constructions by Barbara Dancygier, Eve Sweetser [1]