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, (then) ... would have ... UNREAL, COUNTERFACTUAL *The past is sometimes called the past subjunctive in this position. Only the verb to be has a special form (were in all persons and numbers) in this position.Other combinations of tenses in these kinds of if patterns have no...

Hi So, is it also OK to say: The telephone rang before I left home.

Yes, the past perfect is often not needed, not mandatory, when it is used to refer to the past and it's not part of a conditional structure. Of course there are cases where it should be used to avoid ambiguity or put more stress on a certain event.

Definitely not the present perfect! The second 'if' in your sentence means 'whether', so I'm going to change it in order to avoid any "if' confusion".- If I was on vacation, the last thing I would care about would be whether I had closed the fridge."The...

conditional sentences are four types: the first is called probable condition in the future like if i see you at the party tomorrow, i will give the prize. if we meet in the conference hall tonight, we will take a group photo. the second is an unreal condition, or contrary to the fact condition or...

Hi Manisha,When we would like to relate a failure in the past to an ongoing activity that is still considered unfulfilled today, we can use a mixed conditional statement in which one relates a present unreal condition (i.e. verb in the simple past - TYPE II conditional ) to a past unreal /...

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...

Devrim55 wrote:If we ...........ready for the YDS exam decently, we .........at least two and a half hours a day for reading questions. a)were to get / should have spared b)got / would have spared c)are to get / had spared d)have gotten / would spare e)have to get / must have spared thanks...

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. ...

In the past, if you wanted to eat Japanese food, you would have had to go to Japan but now, you can find Japanese restaurants all around the world, from New York to Istanbul or Sydney. Is such a structure possible in the English L language?Yes. This structure is called a mixed...