They had to have that specially made? The sentence is in the past tense. Since English lacks verbs for situations in which person A does something for person B on person B's request, a rather long and awkward structure is used instead: to have

1. What is the correct expression regarding what one does on the weekend: "What do you do on the weekend?" " What do you on weekends /on the weekends?" All are possible. I like the underlined one best. 2. What is

Hello, Many kind thanks in advance for anyone who can answer the following questions: 1. What is the correct expression regarding what one does on the weekend: "What do you do on the weekend?" "What do you on

Please, can you check my post about something similar to this problem? It's a conditional with the "would" + present perfect in the IF-clause, where we are to use past perfect. I commented at the other thread:

Mr. Wordy, Please, can you check my post about something similar to this problem? It's a conditional with the "would" + present perfect in the IF-clause, where we are to use past perfect. Can you give us some examples

It could appear in a present perfect tense as a participle ('I've had 3 martinis already') or in a present conditional sentence ('If I had a dollar, I'd buy you a sandwich').

Thank you, both. By the way, "I wish my father had lived to see me now!" is the conditional type3 ? I'm wondering if the conditional type2 "I wish my father lived to see me now!" is better, because that sentence

The past perfect is indistinguishable from the past subjunctive. Is that what you meant? If the train had already left, we would have had to take a car. This conditional structure is virtually the only use of the past subjunctive. _______ The

Ok , I did more - ignore my first post , I edited. I was born in Puerto Rico. I moved to the USA when I was 10 years old. If I hadn't come to the U.S, I wouldn't have learned E nglish. I went to school and learned some E nglish. If I

yes you can, don't discount conversational English, it's more authentic than your text books. condition if + subject + past aux + present aux + v (pp) result subject/object + past modal + v (base) This conditional ads an extra