New Zealander here. I came across a sentence similar to the following:
If I moved, I might've been found.
To me, this is grammatically incorrect. It should be:
If I'd moved, I might've been found.
I flagged it, but three American English speakers found nothing wrong with the original sentence.
I was asked if it's also called the subjunctive, because "that's dying".
Anyway, I just wondered if this is accepted grammatical form. If so, in what realms?
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This American English native speaker says the example sentence is incorrect. The "have been found" should be paired with "had moved" to express the correct temporal relationship between the two actions.
Your corrected version is indeed correct. It is also in the past subjunctive mood, but that's not so relevant to the the question of verb tenses. One still must match verb tense in the indicative mood. Consider this poor example:
The verb tenses are inconsistent. One of these is called for instead:
On the other hand, consider:
Different tenses are used correctly in that case, expressing a different temporal relationship between the actions than in the original sentence.