"If you knew what I had gone through, you would surely pity me." Don't listen to these people. You can change it to "have" because only the first verb has to be in the subjunctive mood. The verb "knew" is

Hi. What do you think of the following? In a section called "Advanced Points in Reported Speech" in LoreGate.com's Learning English Easily, under the bold-letter heading of "Exceptions," it is written: Simple Past

It is 'incorrect' only in the regional English which you are prescribing I'm not defending a regional dialect of English. I'm pointing out the correct form of the 3rd conditional spoken throughout England and other English

Just an opinion, since this forum is intended for Basic and Easy English question-- Your question was not a basic and easy one, Iris; it should have been posted in General English Grammar . sometimes it would be good if you could answer in a

Hi Mister Micawber, Thank you for answering my questions. I really admire your knowledge. Just an opinion, since this forum is intended for Basic and Easy English question, sometimes it would be good if you could answer in a more

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

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

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,

I took the explanation from the page http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/presentconditional.html#presentunreal In the Present Unreal Conditional, the form "was" is not considered grammatically correct. In written English or in testing

Hi all! I have a question about the second conditional. My book, Smart Choice (English study book) published by Oxford University, explains the second conditional as follows. "We use the second conditional for possible but unlikely future