Hi, I stumbled upon this interesting sentence in a tv show. Setting: girl is playing the keyboard (badly), guy walks in and says: 'If I’da known you couldn’t play any better than that, I wouldn’t have bought it home.' It seems to me that the negation would normally go with the first verb e.i. 'If I hadn't known you could play any better than that...' It is interesting to me as an English learner what brought about this transfer ?
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