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Hi I think you should use was but for another reason not because it s not hypothetical After all you can say If I knew where he lived I would go right over there and set his house on fire even though the fact that he lives somewhere is not hypothetical So my opinion is that you don t use were...

quote user Fandorin in the Past Form because someone may have asked this question quote No This is not the reason We borrow past modals into present time to give them a conditional flavor conditional not subjunctive to express something more tentative than the present forms suggest The idea is...

Your sentence is type 2 conditional sentence Hence the if clause is in the past tense and the main verb is in the conditional tense However the past tense in this is not a real past tense it is a subjunctive Therefore this refers to present or future time If you use open the verb in the main...

You be here at 9 tomorrow to work on what is left This is a form of the imperative mood a command Yes needed is in the past and I believe that is how I edited your sentence in my previous post 2 He warned that his friend needed to get away from the flammable substance He warned that the toy...

Mister Micawber wrote Your reported version with was is fine Save were which is the present subjunctive form for present conditions in formal sentences contrary to fact We would have gone to the river today if it were hot but it s not hot In other words according to the above examples when it is...

Your reported version with was is fine Save were which is the present subjunctive form for present conditions in formal sentences contrary to fact We would have gone to the river today if it were hot but it s not hot

As a footnote 1 If he were here now he would be able to answer the question 2 If she were a little bigger she wouldn t be quite so small The were in these examples is called the past subjunctive The past subjunctive is used principally in conditional hypothetical statements such as 1 and 2...

Hi Marius I would have answered the way you did But I keep debating myself whether backshifting a subjunctive sentence would cause some misinterpretation or not since the third conditional usage means 0 probability i e unchangeable past while the second one means small probability i e dreaming...

Instead we d pop into the theatre in Brooklyn Heights at any point in a film watch to the end sit through the break and then watch the beginning which naturally led to watching a movie we liked twice even if we hadn t been late http chud com forums archive index php t 3549 htmlAbout the part in...

English is ambiguous enough for it to refer to the past or the future depending on the context Succeeded can be an indicative past tense or a subjunctive and would can be a past tense meaning used to or an auxiliary of the present conditional CB