By Clauses, Past perfect

Re: At/on the other side (aka Yet Another Tiny Question)

«Is the military factory at the other side of the tunnel, or is that where the mining is done?» This mining was done "here" — right where the hero stands: "..._here_ was where the raw materials had been mined for the military factory on the other end of the tunnel" — I have...

Re: tenses

Hi, I would like to hear what badegine would say. I think your sentence is good and conveys the sense of your troubling days over the design of the control system is OVER. Your sentence: 'I'm so glad! What a relief. The design of the control system had been troubling me, and sometimes...

conditionals

Dear respectable English experts, Please check the following sentence and explain your answer: "She would live in new york if she had stayed." I'm really confused about this sentence as we know in conditional form when if clause is past perfect we write the result clause in...

"I had been very up-front with you and..."

Suppose this is what Jane said to her friend after an argument which had taken place a few days before. ( How can I better phrase this?) 'I had been very up-front with you and I want to apologise if I had in any way offended you.'1. What if she said 'any ways' instead of 'any...

Re: tense

Hi Swordfish...Hope your having a great day.So..metting is a spelling mistake for sure. (a) we met once a long time ago but I don´t think she will remember me.Forget (b) because your using a past perfect tense of have...with context that doesn´t need it. Stay with (a).but with (c) your not so...

Re: being carried out

.Hi, Sam.I had seen a lot of victims being carried out by stretchers1)Is this grammatically correct? -- Yes, but the past perfect is odd out of context; it demands another reference point in the past.2) But what is the second one? (being carried out by stretchers) -- It is a non-finite clause...

being carried out

Hello, Quoting an eyes witness "I had seen alot of victims being carried out by stretchers."1)Is this grammatically correc?2) If this is grammatically correct. There are two clauses in this sentence. First, "I had seen alot of victims"; Second, "being carried out by...

Re: subjunctive and 2nd conditional

, (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...

Re: Present or future tense after "by the time" in subordinate clause?

Sorry. Completely wrong.After by the time use the present (or present perfect) if speaking from the viewpoint of the present:By the time I arrive at the hotel, ...By the time I have arrived at the hotel, ...Use past (or past perfect) if speaking from the viewpoint of the past:By the time I...

Re: since + present perfect tense

I may also wish to add that if the main clause makes clear what kind of time we’re talking about, it’s usually unnecessary to repeat it in the subordinate clause. Use appropriate time in the main clause and use simpler (simple past instead of past perfect) tense structure in the subordinate.