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Hi I am confused, please help me. "I wasn't sure if you would remember me" - is it Sequence of tenses or Conditionals or smth else? Thank you in advance.

MarvinTheMartian wrote: I can't make up my mind which tense to use in the following sentence: "If it hadn't been for the remarkable opening passage, I would have assumed that the recital would be / have been a bore. I've seen both tenses used in similar constructions. Is it safe to assume...

I don't think 'future tense' goes together with 'present perfect tense' go along.Actually, it does. Present, Future, Present Perfect, and Future Perfect go together to form the "Present Point of View". Past, Conditional ('would'), Past Perfect, and Conditional Perfect ('would have') go...

Anonymous wrote:‘If you looked in the past, you would have noticed amazing things.’ My text says this is correct. But should it not be "If you HAD looked in the past, you would have noticed amazing things." Why or why not? Your question indicates that you found the invalidity of the use of...

will that violate the conditional structure? It just creates a "mixed conditional". CJ

Belly wrote:But will that violate the conditional structure? Not really! We use conditional statements to express propability. Here is a quick summary: 1. If the certainty is 100% (time independent), use present tense If you don’t eat, you get hungry. ...

But will that violate the conditional structure?

Hi,I think it's definitley "was". The other, "were", doesn't make sense there. There are no conditionals, so it's just a past tense. And it agrees with "it" because that's the way "it's/it was" is used idiomatically:It's John who decided to go.It's my parents who decided to go.It was Jenny who...

No, this isn't the third conditional because there is no main clause, (a result of the if-clause "if we hadn't been late", what could we have done, etc). "We hadn't been" is the pluperfect tense.

Welkins2139 wrote: " if clauses " ( also called adverb clause of condition) present possible condition. The main clause express results. 1. If you study in a foreign country, what do you need to do? a present tense, not a future tense, is used in an if clause, even though the verb in the...