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If she had known it was your birthday, she would have bought a gift.

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Sentence

Narrator

If she had known it was your birthday, she would have bought a gift.

Study notes

How to use in different contexts

Giving Advice

You should have told her it was your birthday; she would have bought you a gift.

Describing Habits

I always tell people my birthday in advance, so they remember to get me a gift.

Asking About Others

Did you tell your friend it was your birthday?

Sharing Hypotheticals

If I hadn't told them, I wouldn't have received any gifts.

Rephrased versions

Formal

Had she been aware of your birthday, she would have purchased a present.

Casual

If she'd known, she would have gotten you something.

Simpler English

She would have bought a gift if she knew.

Phrases to learn

If she had known

Expressing a hypothetical past situation.

would have bought

Expressing a hypothetical past action.