In Conditionals^x, Past perfect^x

Thank you. It sometimes confused me whether I should use a past perfect or not in these situations> Your correction: I am sitting at a corner table in a restaurant. It is raining, and I am wondering what might have happened if I had done this or that or hadn't done this or that. If I had...

Can someone explain these to me these please. Can you tell me how this works? 1)It was hard. It was during a tough time I was dropped (dropped -- better?) out of college due to the pressure. I may have been too young. 1) We had moved our house. It was difficult. 2) I had married by then, and I...

Hello Anonymous, Avoid using the word " would " in the " if " clause of your conditional sentences. Use the present (type 1), simple past (type 2) or past perfect (type 3).

they had (previously) become corrupt. (event) It was simply the choice of the author to present the facts in this way. We may disagree about whether this was the clearest, most effective way to present the facts, but that is the way he chose. CJ

You can't go back too many times. Choose a critical moment/event in the past: everything earlier than that should be past perfect. When he arrived , it had developed into ***, and they became his worst enemies. This is correct. Only what ("it") developed before his arrival is...

Thank you. I may be naive to ask you this: What is the reason to shift-back further only the following two events and leave the other two events just once back (as it seems -- I don't how many times back since the past can go back far in the past with the ability to accommadate how many...

1) Hi, Please tell me if this is a backshift of a zero or first conditional. Is backshifting of zero or first conditional OK??? If he did write the book, it was after the last remaining people fled to *** and after a long journey to the land of ... 2) Is this kind of mixing of past perfect...

The condition is that the if clause may be fulfilled. In your sentences it is already impossible to fulfil the if clause making the sentences purely hypothesis. This is known as a type III conditional and is formed thus: if + past perfect + would + have + past participle . A conditional formed...

Hi, Which one of these is right? 1) I dried myself after I had taken a shower. 2) I dried myself after I showered. Both are fine. In both, the sequence of events is made clear by the word 'after'. And these 1) After I had known learned the truth, I killed him. ...

Which one of these is right? 1) I dried myself after I had taken a shower. 2) I dried myself after I showered. and these 1) After I had known the truth, I killed him 2) When I had known about the truth, I killed him 3) When I knew the truth, I killed him. I think I might have confused past...