Any of the candidates still in the race would make a better president than the incumbent. 1) Is 'would make' a future in the past or the implied second conditional referring to the present/future time? In other words, is this

(Sorry, both c and i were meant to be written as you corrected: would + past perfect.) Two very important points point I must grasp. PLease help...again. *I thought that if I kill a man, I will go to jail. 1. Can you not

If you are giving a reason, then your tense would only depend on the meaning you want to convey and not by the tense you used on the surrounding words. So you consider it as a separate sentence. In your case, it makes sense to make it present

Unreal tenses use the past tense for present situations and the past perfect for past situations. For example: This is true for constructions like "I would rather + clause", "I wish + clause" and for the antecedent of

Actually the correct answer is "If I had been there, I would have helped you". This form is often referred to as the third conditional. First conditional: I am there, I will help you. If + present..will + infinitive

Thanks! But I'm not sure such simplifications are always possible. In fact, I'm pretty sure they are NOT always possible, but it might be difficult to know when and why. I am certain that had the Chinese not been in the room, we would

I am a great fan of tense simplification in dependent clauses, and teach it. The two 'would's sound awkward at best, and the past perfect is overkill.

It is not the simple past tense. This is true. With "would", it is necessary to have an already established past time-frame. This is usually true in practice. But not always. "would" can also be borrowed into present time,

So that we don't have to go through the whole topic, I'll firstly write down what I do know: Would is used as the past tense of will--to talk about the future in the past. Would is used to talk about repetetive/habitual, past

What is the tense of would + infinitive? Is it taken from the surrounding verbs? In the future-in-the-past sense, "would" is identifiably the past tense of "will": "I know I will be successful" -> "I