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This situation is a little different than your type III conditional formula is intended for. The speaker is not in Ian's position, so the phrase is a "condition contrary to fact". In that situation a formal speaker or writer would use the subjunctive mood of the verb rather than indicative or...

Hi again, You stated the document number earlier. You had stated the document number earlier. I don't think there is any difference in meaning between those two. The only difference is that the first one is simple past tense, and the other is past perfect tense... There's a...

Anonymous wrote: I’m not sure when to use past tense and when to use past perfect tense. For number 1 and 2, my answers are met and went , but the correct answers are had met and had gone . Can anyone explain it to me? Thanks! Jack came home at twelve last night. He 1 (meet) a...

Anonymous wrote: I’m not sure when to use past tense and when to use past perfect tense. For number 1 and 2, my answers are met and went , but the correct answers are had met and had gone . Can anyone explain it to me? Thanks! Jack came home at twelve last night. He 1 (meet) a...

Anonymous wrote: I’m not sure when to use past tense and when to use past perfect tense. For number 1 and 2, my answers are met and went , but the correct answers are had met and had gone . Can anyone explain it to me? Thanks! Jack came home at twelve last night. He 1 (meet) a...

Anonymous wrote: I’m not sure when to use past tense and when to use past perfect tense. For number 1 and 2, my answers are met and went , but the correct answers are had met and had gone . Can anyone explain it to me? Thanks! Jack came home at twelve last night. He 1 (meet) a...

I’m not sure when to use past tense and when to use past perfect tense. For number 1 and 2, my answers are met and went , but the correct answers are had met and had gone . Can anyone explain it to me? Thanks! Jack came home at twelve last night. He 1 (meet) a friend in the street at...

I was told that there are twelve tenses in English: 1: Simple Present Tense 2: Present Perfect Tense 3: Present Progressive Tense 4: Present Perfect Progressive Tense 5: Simple Past Tense 6: Past Perfect Tense 7: Past Progressive Tense 8: Past Perfect...

Original sentence: 1. If we now redirect the standard input of the wc -l command to come from user.lst, we would have effectively counted the number of users. (Why is past perfect used here and what does the sentence mean?) My change: 2. If we now redirect the standard input of the wc...

I think I understand it now, thx for the explanation abbie . Just one more question about your first example - Lemon and Jack have learned some grammar: I would have used past tense, would that be wrong or would that just have another meaning? Because you said that they learned it in the past but...