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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...

Newbie2007 wrote: Quangtn03 wrote: Hi newbie."I wish you will have..." is a true conditional sentence. I think this is a letter so the writer have a wish for his friend.The latter is "I wish you will be happy", not "I wish be happy". He write for friend not for himself. Are you ok? Tell me what...

<<Do we have to use the definite article "the" for each tense or not? >> To be very strict about it, yes, but we frequently write telegraphically and leave out the the, especially on this site, where we use the names of the tenses so often. <<1.In the use of the Present...

Hi, everyone. I've been reading the forums for a while, and I've got a lot of knowledge about conditionals from here. Here's a pattern of conditionals. If + past from verb ....., S would/could .... eg. If the sun were to rise in the west, I woud give you a billion dollars. Can I rewrite this...

Actually it is the right way of saying it! There's something called MIXED conditionals, and "if i were in your shoes, i would've killed him" is a perfect example. Type 2 Conditional, as Conchita57 meantioned, refers to an unreal situation in the present/future. So when you say "if i were...

Conchita57 wrote:This is not the usual combination of tenses in conditional sentences. You could say either:'If I were in your shoes, I would kill him' (unreal situation in the present/future)or:'If I had been in your shoes, I would have killed him' (unreal situation in the past). Actually it...

Marius Hancu wrote: 1. If he (was, were) over 18, he would have been hired.were is better than was, but still not the best (see further). My take: If he had been over 18 ... is ok because it's an unreal condition in the past, eg. at the moment of the interview. BUT ... If he were over 18...

hello all I will put (write) here all the general forms of the English grammar tenses as I know (understand ) it, I want you to chek it and correct me. Sometimes there is no form (just a speace), I want you to write the general form of the kind of the tense that is detected. I'm so sorry If...

Hi, I really don't know what kind of tense I can put after "I", and what native speakers usually say: My dad would kill me if he knew I am playing with his gun. My dad would kill me if he knew I was playing with his gun. My dad would kill me if he knew I have been playing with his gun. My...

1. You must be pretty dumb if you get a bad mark. This is fine. It’s the first conditional: modal auxiliary verb + if + present simple 2. You must be pretty dumb if you got a bad mark. This would work as the second conditional if you replaced ‘must’ with ‘would’. In such a case, the...