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It is possible and correct. This is not a true passive. interested is normally treated as a plain adjective, not as a part of a verb. The verb here is therefore be (in the past perfect tense, had been).The job is the agent if you treat this as a passive form of the verb to interest. But as I...

Interesting! You never taught me those conditionals! Does that mean that in English (like in Italian), it is possible to use the simple past instead of the subjunctive formed with the past perfect, in informal and casual English? The only example I know it's kind of common is substituting...

Thanks Goodman for these information.They really help me a lot understand this grammatical rule.I have some further questions if you don't mind

This is my take:The use of "would rather" is not restricted by time. In certain aspects, it contains a conditional element as well. Here is some info. Hope that helps your question.<EDITED by mod to credit your source.>

Then it's wouldn't.Though some variation is possible in the right situation, the typical groups of tenses that go together in the same sentence are:Present perfect - Present - Future of the Present (will) - Most modal verbs, including can, may, must, shouldOR Past Perfect - Past - Future...

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"?...

, (then) ... would have ... UNREAL, COUNTERFACTUAL *The past is sometimes called the past subjunctive in this position. Only the verb to be has a special form (were in all persons and numbers) in this position.Other combinations of tenses in these kinds of if patterns have no...

Hi Manisha,When we would like to relate a failure in the past to an ongoing activity that is still considered unfulfilled today, we can use a mixed conditional statement in which one relates a present unreal condition (i.e. verb in the simple past - TYPE II conditional ) to a past unreal /...

Devrim55 wrote:If we ...........ready for the YDS exam decently, we .........at least two and a half hours a day for reading questions. a)were to get / should have spared b)got / would have spared c)are to get / had spared d)have gotten / would spare e)have to get / must have spared thanks...