Grumbler, COME is the whole trip. This is about the end of the trip. You wouldn’t have ARRIVED or GOTTEN HERE ON TIME.
если бы я не взял такси, я бы не приехал вовремя
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Can you elaborate on "whole trip"?
Also, my understanding is that "IN time" means not late, while "ON time" means rather "exactly". Am I wrong?
IN TIME means that you arrive early enough so as to not miss something, and we usually use it with the complement FOR: “Despite the rain and traffic, I arrived (just) in time FOR my daughter’s piano recital.” (= I didn’t miss it). ON TIME means to arrive at an hour previously designated or scheduled and can be used with NO complement: “You’re scheduled to work at 8am tomorrow. You need to call in if it looks like you won’t be arriving on time because of traffic or inclement weather.”
COME as a whole trip includes leaving one place, traveling along a trajectory and arriving at another place. In the context of this post, we’re referring to the final part of the trip - the arrival. In this context we would use “wouldn’t have ARRIVED -or- GOTTEN (T)HERE -or- MADE IT (T)HERE on time. Here’s an example of all these points in one snippet: “I’m so glad I CAME to your surprise birthday party yesterday. We were all supposed to be there by 7 and I had to take a cab, so I didn’t know if I’d be ON TIME. But I had a great driver, so I MADE IT there IN TIME FOR the actual ‘surprise!’ when you walked in.”
OK, thank you
Add other variants yourself if you wish
One more little but important thing - you need a comma in your sentence 😉
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