I've come across a confusing conditional sentence, which is; "If I hadn't broken up with Kate last month, I would have been dating her for 2 years." At first glance, it looks like a typical sentence of "third conditional /

There are some sentences I found in understanding and using english grammar (by Azar) on page 419. These sentences is about using tense in a sub clause in a conditional sentence Question 1. Your friend was in the hospital, you didn't know

... it probably would not have, had it been ... It is a "third conditional", if you want the technical name. And the underlying if clause if it had been is rephrased with subject-verb inversion as had it been . CJ Thank you. Very

Hi, someone there. I'm very confused abot the topic of English Grammar called "Subject-verb inversion in conditional sentences". I mean, how can I combine a pair of sentences using conditional clauses and subject inversion : That

From the book, I learned that there are 5 If ... Then patterns. 1. If present, then present 2. If present, then can/may 3. If present, then future 4. If hypothetical subjunctive, then conditional If pete ATE pizza tomorrow, THEN he WOULD

Is this sentence grammatically correct? Не would have lent you the book last week if you could have called for it . No, it's not. YOU ARE WRONG. -- The modal verbs can and may can also be found in conditional sentences. If they occur in

Yet if she could have seen me there, she would have been a little puzzled. What verb form is "could have seen" in this sentence? Personally, I would just call it a "modal perfect" (with could ). I use that term for any modal

Thank you very much! so that could in the main clause is absolutely, definitely not a subjunctive. The sentence is correct, but could have lent is not a subjuntive. Could in the main clause is probably a conditional mood, isn't it? could

Welcome to EF, Penstaar! It takes most people quite along time to learn the basics of English grammar and there's no way you can master it in a matter of minutes. For your first example you should study conditional sentences; for the second,

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