"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

Very interesting topic. In English you would say I said I loved you (both said and love use the same tense). In my own language I would say the above sentence only if "loving" is no longer true. Otherwise I would say I said I love

I'll know who won when I watch the match. If he misses work today it will not be the first time that he has missed work. (Because you start the sentence with an "If he misses work today," everything that follows is treated as a

Hi pleasehelp In your sentence, "have been" is what is known as a perfect infinitive . There are some other threads here that discuss perfect infinitives. Here are a few of them:

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

Factual Conditionals:Present This kind talks about general truths and scientific facts.You can also use it to talk about habits and recurring events. If you vote,you can have a say. Factual Conditionals:Future Use future factual conditional

In his book Longman English Grammar , L. G. Alexander classifies the conditional sentences into three types: If you take a taxi, you will get there quicker. (type 1) If you took a taxi, you would get there quicker. (type 2) If you had taken

You definitely would not use "that" if you are referring to something that you know is fact. Hi, was there a mistake there? Did you mean "You definitely would not use IF"? Well, what I was saying is that I suspected that

You might find this useful: Introduction to the Grammar of English by Rodney Huddleston, first published 1984, 470 pages, Cambridge University Press. Don't let the word "Introduction" fool you. It's actually rather advanced and

... it probably would not have, had it been ... It is a "third conditional", if you want the technical name. And the underlying if clause if it had been is rephrased with subject-verb inversion as had it been . CJ Thank you. Very