By Conditionals, Past perfect

It's just a standard type 3 conditional. This expresses a hypothesis on what would have happened if the "if" clause, which is no longer possible to fulfil, had been fulfilled. It is formed as follows: if + pronoun + past perfect clause + pronoun + would + perfect infinitive clause.

Hi again, Thank you so much again.Here,Your correction:"If John comes home about an hour later, he will be looking for me to play chess with him and when he finds out I am not there, he will be disappointed," I think. Do you have a question about this? Yes,but does it have to be...

Thank you so much again.Here,Your correction:"If John comes home about an hour later, he will be looking for me to play chess with him and when he finds out I am not there, he will be disappointed," I think. Do you have a question about this? Yes,but does it have to be "will"?...

Hi,I had a little trouble understanding your questions in this post, I'm afraid. 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...

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 was...

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 ever...